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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-18

Judge Henry Wells and Attorney M. l.. Hawkins, of Monticello, spent Sunday in Pine Bluff.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-18

TOR SALE.-- Scholarship in one of the besl + business colleges in the country. Apply at the Graphic office. If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-18

FOR RENT--Two large, well renovated rooms, lighted by gas or electricity, and water convenient. Location over the GRAPHIC office, on West Barraque street Apply 10 GRAPHIC. If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-18

{NTANTED-E Energetic men and women to
 w travel and appoint agents. Salary S50 month and commissions. The National Co Little Rock, Ark.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-18

FOR SALE-An almost new four-hole Mn \ iestic range, at a bargain. Apply to Geo. F. Moore, at Dreyfus. the clothier. [
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-18

.eThe New Woman at Merrill In- stitute tonight. If
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Mr.. Breckenridge is sadly in need of some
sort of quorum-counting device.-Washing-
ton Post.
Times continue hard. The only free thing
in this community is Observation-Disclosures
Constitution
Mr. Anthony Comstock is understood to
say that he has no objections to the bare
facts.-Detroit Tribune.
This sort of atmosphere will be sure to
drive the decollete woman to the weather
Washington Post.
1t would seem as If there was little left
of the Cleveland administration except the
pie counter.-The Capital.
The muscular Christian is more often a
FOUNDER than an expounder of the scrip
tures.-Boston Transcript.
Colonel Breckenridge has thus far failed
to count a. quorum at any of his lectures
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Talk about the jaws of DEATH exclaimed
a man who had a scolding wife, 81 tell you
they're nothing like the jaws of life. LOW
ell Courier
A contemporary refers to the old year
as "she" But if it had been of that sex
would it have ever become Charlottesville
Courier Journal.
To pass a Carlisle currency bill will be
to pass Carlisle currency.-Rochester Dem
ocrat and Chronicle.
Mrs. McBride-Jol1n, dear, why are some
grocers called green grocers?. Mr. Nc
Bride.-To distinguish them from cash gro
GERS, darling.-Vogue.
kissing a girl under the nistletoe is only
a branch of the great principle Of kissing
her under any pretence that's available
philadelphia Times.
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recognized fact that much has been ac-
complished through 1t that otherwise
misnt have gone undone. for It has brought
many young men into fellowship with ac-
tive Republicans and thus fixed them In
principles that they may have held lightly
before such associations were formed and
might have been susceptible to arguments
which, when once they had become allied
with the Lincoln League, could not reach
them.
It is further admitted that the league
clubs were a great help to the Repub-
licans in the last campaign in securing
a poll of voters which proved to be far
more reliable than that which the Dem
ocratic managers had, and, in fact, very
nearly correct This admission of the
good work that has been done by the
Lincoln League clubs and the fact that
the Democracy are going to try and or
ganize on the same plan should be an
incentive to extend the Organization and
keep its working efficiency up to the
highest point
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-02
New Years with renny.on.
Many suns arise and set,
q oh he re hlOQr

Many suns arise and set
Many a chance the years beget
-"Miller's Daughter"
Make Thou my spirit pure and clear
AS are the frosty skies,
Or this first snowdrop of the year
That in my bosom lies.
EST. Agnes Eve.''
Smiles from the threshold of the year to
whispering at will be happier" and old
Press round US, and warm hearts close with
warm hands.
Dip down upon the northern shore,
Q sweet New Year delaying long;
Thou doeSt expectant nature wrong;
Delaying long, delay no more.
TN Memoriam."
Sing the New Year in under the blue.
dew y ne yog sang it as tb glady o new
That you should carol so madly?
THE Throstle."
There's new foot on the floor, my friend.
And a new face at the door, my friend,
A new face at the door.
Death of the Old Year"
The night is starry and cold, my friend,
And the New Year blithe and bold, my
Comes up to take his own
Death of the Old Year
When wealth no more shall rest in mounded
But smit with freer light shall slowly melt
In many streams to fatten lower lands,
And light shall spread, and man be lilker
Thro' all the season of the golden year.
THE Golden Year"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Professor Bailey, of Missouri, is said to
have obtained more than 1000 types of
pumpkins by crossing the flowers of one
kind with the pollen of another.
After Victor Hugos death more than 10, 900
isolated verses were found scattered about
his room written on small slips of paper
He used to write necessarily. even while
dressing himself in the morning. saD
Mr.. A. S. Ward, of Elton College, has
been elected to a scholarship at BalioI He
is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey
Ward. The many readers of Robert Els
of Oxford and Ballot in that book.
When w. Fl. Rollins, night station mas
ter at a Washington police station, died
few nights ago the clock in the police sta
ton stopped at the very minute of his
death. Just before that large glass ink
stand that stood on his office desk cracked
squarely in two.
Mary Ann Dalton, of Ashland, N. H, is
ninety-six years old, but is active enough to
supply all her own wants. She spins, weaves
and makes the cloth and clothes she wears
the rugs. she walks on, and the sheets and
blankets she sleeps under, and moldS the
candles which she burns in her house.
A movement started in Baltimore to pre-
sent testimonial to Dr. John S. Billings
surgeon of the United States army and an
advisory surgeon of the Johns Hopkins
hospital is well on foot. The testimonial is
to be $4,000 subscribed by physicians and
surgeons throughout the country and in APP
probation of compiling the indexed cata-
logue of the surgeon generals office.
For the greater honor of literature a
memorial meeting for Robert Louis Steven
son will be held at Carnegie Hall, New
York, on Friday, evening, under the auspices
of the Uncut Leaves Society. Edmund c.
st 7dman will preside. Andrew Carnegie,
Richard Henry Stoddard, George w. Gable,
William Winter and others will make short
addresses. David Christie Murray will de-
liver the principal address. Selections from
Stevenson's ballads and stories will be read
by Nelson Wheatcroft.
Mrs Henrietta NJ King, of Corpus Christi,
Tex owns 1,S75 square miles Of land In
Texas, or about million and quarter OF
acres. She inherited this vast domain from
her husband, Richard King. who was born
in this State In 1895. After living an adven-
turous life, he bought what was then known
as the Santa Gertrude's ranch in Texas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-02
THE PARTY OF IMBECILITY.


Washington special telegram in a
Democratic paper gives a discouraging
picture of government finances as they
appear from an administration point of
view. The dispatch says that during
the past six months the revenues of
the government have been $2S, 900
less than the expenditures" AS Secre-
tary Carlisle's annual report showed an
actual deficit during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1894. of $G9, S03, 270. the
deficit which has accrued during the
last six months is in addition to that.
The dispatch says there is very little
doubt but that under normal conditions
the present tariff law would have pro-
duced sufficient revenue, but under the
extraordinary conditions which exist it
has proved Inadequate" These ex-
traordinary conditions have been created
by the Democratic party and are likely
to continue as long as it has the power
of doing mischief. 1t is further ad-
mitted that mo revenue will be derived
during the next six months from dis
titled spirits, while the receipts from the
income tax are entirely problematical"
Meanwhile, the gold balance is again
approaching the danger line and the
prospect of another issue of bonds is
imminent. In this critical situation the
Secretary of the Treasury has been in
conference with prominent Democratic
statesmen discussing plan by which
the revenues of the government may be
increased" and they have called in that
most useless Of all methods, a Demo-
otnh
There have been during the holiday
cess several private consultations of the
Democratic leaders to determine how inn
mediate revenue can be secured without
resorting to the sale of bonds 1t has been
discovered that the best practical course
for immediate charging of the revenue is
an increase of 81 per barrel upon beer and
malt liquors. That increase would yield
So, O00,00O OF revenue per annum and it
would be immediately available. This step
it is argued, is the best solution of the
problem and from what can be learned from
official sources it is quite probable that
Secretary Carlisle Will recommend in a co.n-
munication to Congress shortly, an increase
in this tax
All this makes a gloomy spectacle for
the contemplation of patriotic Ameri-
cans at the beginning of 1896. 1t is a
spectacle in which the most prominent
features are political imbecility and ad-
ministrative impotence. The situation
gives significance to a Washington
special in another Democratic paper,
which, after admitting the practical
failure of the administrations financial
policy, says:
The simple principle advocated by Re-
publicans that an excess of receipts over
expenditures means the highest govern
ment credit and the greatest confidence in
government currency is making some i'm
preston upon the Democrats, and the prop
Osition to increase the national revenues is
likely to prove popular one.
1t is gratifying to know that Repub-
lican principles of finance, especially. the
simple one that receipts should always
exceed expenditures, are making some
impression upon the Democrats" but
experience does not justify any faith in
their ability to carry them out.
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and BY shrewdness and ability became very
wealthy. When he died, In 1885, all his
property went to his wife. daughter of the
Rev Hiram Chamberlain, who built the
first Presbyterian church on the Rio Grande.
Mrs. King is about sixty years tis age. and
BILE character She lives very plainly and
does not spend a 1.-THE of her income Her
land alone is now worth $5,e00,000, and 1T viii
be worth much more when it is devoted to
viticulture, for which it is said to be well
adapted.
son, who has had charge of the government
schools in Alaska for many years, herd
of over 100 reindeer has been transported
from Siberia across the Boring Strait into
Alaska, and they are reported to be doing
very well. More than 200 fawns were born
last year. There used to be large herds of
wild reindeer ON the moSS-covered tundra
of Alaska, but they were all extermnated
years ago, and the wal-us, whale and seal,
which have since supplied the natives with
food, clothing and fuel, are getting very
scarce.
A remarkable freak in moon phases was
noted in the month of February 1866,
month which has gone into astronomical
annals as 1.-The month without full moon"
In that year January and March each had
two full moons, but February none.
uses the following language in describing
it: do you realize what a rare thing in
nature 1T was? 1T has not happened before
since the beginning of the Christian era
or probably since the creation of the world.
1t will not occur again, according to the
computations of the astronomer royal of
England for-how long do you think? Not
until after $500 900 years from 1866
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-02
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.
Facts and Figures That Possess a
Perennial Interest.

Facts and Figures That Possess a
Perennial Interest.
Sir Evelyn Wood, in Fortnightly Review
Out of 673 of all ranks who rode down
the valley only 1876 rode back. There were
100 killed, 1874 wounded and Is prisoners
the remainder being dismounted, for out
wounded.
The havoc and confusion wrought among
the Russian troops are indescribabe, and
this accounts for the number of our dis
mounted men who escaped. Several indi-
viduals of the leading. squadrons dashed
officer killing in succession, near the river,
the wheel, center. and lead drivers OF a
gun which the Russians were endeavoring
Lieut.. Percy Smith, Thirteenth Light
Dragons, from an accident to his right
scabbar. While leading his men on the
far side of the Russian battery, Russian
soldier, perceiving he had sword, gal
loped up alongside and resting his carhine
on the left arm, pressed the nnuzzle close
to Smiths body as the two horsemen gal
loped, locked together Smith presently,
finding the suspense intolarable, struck at
the Russians face with the manned hand,
and, the carbine going off, the bullet passed
him alone 80
Captain Morris, of the Seventeenth Ian
GERS, terribly wounded, gave up IS sword
to a Russian officer, who shortly afterward,
being driven from his side. left Morris
alone, and he nearly fell a victim To the
cupidity of some Cossacks. From them and
with great difficulty got back up The valley
till he fell insensible close to the dead body
of his friend Nolan.
Lieut.. Sir William Gordon, who greatly
distinguished himself in personal cornbats
in Central India in 1858, is still an active
man, although the doctors said, on the 25th
of October, he was their only patient
with his head off, so terribly had he been
hacked by a crowd of Russians into which
he penetrated He used to make little of his
escape, but we learned that after being
knocked out of the saddle he lay on his
fO Iaora fha ODD fra,
his eyes. Eventually without sword or
pistol, he turned back and. unable to re-
gain his stirrups, although perfect horse
man., rode at a walk up the valley. He
found between himself and our heavy bril-
gade a regiment of Russian cavalry facing
up the valley. He was now Joined by two
or three men, and he made for the squad
ron interval. The nearest Russian, hearing
him approach. looked back, and by closing
outward to bar his passage, left sufficient
opening in the squadron, through which
Gordon passed at canter. He was follow
ed and summoned to surrender and, refus-
ing, would have been cut down had not
his purSuer been shot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-02
A ROLL OF HONOR.
Defeat of Cleveland in Trying to
Prove Wholesale Pension Frauds.

Boston Advertiser.
When the present administration began
its work of hunting down the pension
frauds the special examiners division
of the Pension Office was detailed to do
the greater part of the work. The sum of
$500 900 had been appropriated for the work
of this division and about fifty-five special
examiners were instructed to examine ev-
cry case thoroughly for the purpose of dis
covering any suspicious circumstances in
connection with the application for. the
proof of, or the allotment of a pension
ably close and rigid. At all events nearly
5000 cases, 4.765 to be exact were picked
out as iustifying suspicion of fraud of
some kind.
Even if all of these cases had been fraud
ulent the fact would have remained that
out of more than 100000 pension cases
these ffty-five examiners, with appro-
priation of 100000 to aid them in their
work. discovered less than 4-10- of per
Considering the sweeping character of the
charges made, the result would have heen
sioners, while in some measure iustifable.
was at all events, somewhat exaggerated
and unduly pessimistic.
However, as 1t proved, most of the 4,765
cases selected by the examiners as likely to
prove fraudulent justified no such suspicion.
1t was easy enough for the examiners to
charge and to recommend the suspension
of pension payments in such cases, but
when a thorough investigation was made
it was discovered that in about every case
there was little good reason to charge the
pensioner or applicant with wrongdoing.
Pension Office for the first fiscal year and
the statistics there given are worthy of the
best attention of those who have denounced
the pension system a a gigantic fraud.
Out of the 4,765 cases selected fraudu-
lent by the pension examiners convictions
resulted in less than 200. and of the per-
sons convicted twenty were notaries and ex-
ecuting officers, thirty-two were attorneys
and subagents, and thirty-seven were wit
nesses and other persons not pensioners.
There were also found eighteen fraudulent
impersona tors of claimants and pensioners
a,.d a1o INN RIlf of and
widows of pensioners applicants for
pensions. only. thirty-nine were discovered
to be guilty of fraud upon the government
Ort of more than 1,250,000 pensioners or
applicants for pensions less than forty were
convicted of fraud by this force of fifty-five
special examiners aided by a liberal appro-
priat.on.
IL, as President Cleveland asserted, there
are thousands of fraudulent pensioners: IT,
as other Democratic leaders insist, the PEN
sion system thing of mere spoils
and plumber what will it cost TO find out
the remaining frauds at the present cost
of $4,000 each fraudulent pensioner discov-
ered7
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-02
GIBBONS AND THE NEW WOMAN.

Cardinal Gibbons, whose alleged
views on the woman question appeared
in yesterdays Journal. has probably
been misrepresented, since the original
publication was made by the New York
World-a paper totally untrustworthy
and loving sensations" far more than
the truth. On other subjects of the day
Gibbons has not shown himself especial
ly illiberal or narrow and while he has
occasionally expressed himself in some
what caustic terms concerning prevail
ing feminine foibles and has shown him
self possessed of the common masculine
theory that only the old-fashioned do
nestle woman with no outside interests
but those of religion was worthy of ad-
miration, he has not shown himself so
far behind the times as his latest So
called interview indicates. But, assum-
ing that even a part of his savage criti-
cisms on the modern woman are genuine
utterances, they must be accepted with
surprise coming from such source.
Cardinal Gibbons is an intelligent man;
he knows human nature. and, knowing
it, he should be aware that whatever
may be the difference between the
women of this century and those of the
one preceding. it is difference that has
come about in the natural progress of
events; it is development depending on
the changed conditions of life, process
of evolution for which not the women,
but circumstances are responsible.
Given the modern conditions of exist
ence, the dissemination of intelligence,
oil nj nd Of n rH
to educational and social progress, and
the change in the position of women
was as inevitable as any other social
movement. 1t has not been fastened by
argument and cannot be hindered by
fulminatio from ecclesiastical or other
source. In denouncing women who have
shown an interest in the world that lies
outside of the home and the church, and
who have even ventured to participate
in affairs Of this region unknown to
them, the Cardinal merely proves his
inability to keep pace with social evolu
ton. He may not approve of the
change; he may fancy that the out
come will be disaster. but he should
understand that he cannot prevent it.
and that it would be wisdom on his part
and to adapt himself to the new require,
ments which are imposed upon those
who would guide her in her new and not
yet thoroughly safe paths. A man of
his acumen ought also to know that
whatever may be the exterior change
in the life of man or woman, nature re-
mains the same. Though women broaden
their horizon of thought and their field
of labor, there is no probability, no pos
sibility that as a class they will think
less highly of home and its ties be
less willing to devote themselves to hus-
bands and children or be deficient in
any of the wOmanly virtues. In aSsum-
ing that such will he the case this dis
tinguished prelate betrayS his lack of
insight into human nature and into the
principles which underlie all social
movements. The new woman" is evil
IDENTITY crowding the Cardinal a little
and he must make haste lest she pass
him by and his influence be lost.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-02

Even the New York Times is forced
to admit that Secretary Carlisle has
made a dismal failure at the head of
the Treasury Department. It's criticism
is directed solely against his currency
plan, but it might have included the
tariff bill as WELL for that is largely his.
In view of his admitted failure the
Times thinks lit would not be improper
or imprudent for the President to con-
slider in what way the Secretary is of
value to the administration" If the
President should press that inquiry he
would run up against more than one Of
his secretaries. Indeed, the opinion
seems to be growing that the President
himself is not of much value to the ad-
ministration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-02

BY the census of 1880 the South had
$50 cotton mills, with 100000 spindles and
$4,000 looms. The total capital invested
was $21 100000 By 1890 the number of
mills had increased to 254, with 1,712,000
spindles and $4,000 looms and s61 900, 900
capital. A recent estimate shows 405
mills, 100000 spindles and 1000 looms,
and 97000.00O invested capital This
enormous development of single indus
try could never have taken place but
for the abolition of slavery and a steady
adherence to a protective policy, for
both of which the South owes a debt of
undying gratitude to the Republican
party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-02
The Sine Qua Non Islands.

Boston Herald
Mr.. Edward Stanwood, IN his address on
1.-THE Aroostook War" befole nearly sew
enty members of the Pine Tree State Club,
who gathered at the Brunsw Hotel.
Thursday evening, gave just one humorous
incident OF the dispute about which he
spoke. He said he would have given more
had he been able TO ind more. The Incl
dent he gave, he said. was perhaps old
enough 70 be new TO his hearers. Two
Maine countryrnen were discussing one or
Webstelss state papers in regard to the
controversy whca one of them asked what
Webster meant by the three words .sSlne
qua non.a The other replied that he WASN'T
quite sure. but thoNght they were islands
in PassamaQuoddy bax-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-02

The stamp put by the Boston postof-
fee on all letters mailed there formerly con-
sisted of half a dozen straight black lines
two inches long. These were rather mean
ingless. and it occurred to some genius that
anything emanating from Boston ought to
represent an idea, SO he made the lines
wavy, put some stars in a white space in
the northwest corner-and, behold. an Amer
lean flag! The postoffice adopted the new
design. and now Boston is more proudly
patriotic than ever
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-02

The primary object of the suit insti-
tuted by the Encouragement seems to
be to discover the perpetrators of the
fraudulent change in the fee and salary
bill after it was passed which furnished
the ground for the Supreme Court de-
cison against it's constitutionality. The
Journal is not prepared to say what the
result may be upon the fee and salary
question, but it can hardly fail to be
beneficial in emphasizing the necessity
for more stringent legislation relative
to the custody of Legislative bills both
before and after their final passage. 1t
ought not to be within the power of a
corrupt clerk of the Legislature or per-
haps a subordinate to prevent the
passage of bills by conniving at their
disappearance or to make material
changes in laws after their enactment
without mourning a severe penalty
There has been too much of this kind
of dark-lantern legislation in this State
and the ouickened moral sense of the
times demands that it be stopped.