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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

Gbe Daily Graphic. 
 m11ER sOLMsoN, City Editor.
 WEATHER EoRrcHxT.
 Fair and continued warm tonight and Wednesday.
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 CITY ITEMS.
 Fresh Donchnuts at Shi5more's
 The school season is now aGYa1c- iDg 3pon Us.
 Mir. " T.. Irwin a prominent Lit lie Rock attorney isin thecity today.
 Mir. George Hughes returned this morning from visit to Little Rock.
 See Burns the Tailor. new stoeK. iaet arrived Over Bank of Pine Bluff. 3gI.
 Hisr Amanda Caldwell left today for Beeauter. 6tt., where she wil3 at tend school.
 MT Willie Dew0ody IS visiting his uncle, Mr ". :. SorreNs at Hot springs
 Mir Jim Reno has returned from several weeks visit to relatives in Mississippf.
 Mrs. Alex Dry burgb and daughter, Miss aEthel. have returned from a months visit at Chicago.
 Delicious Ice Cream Soda 5 cents nt BaileY's. b
 MT. Chas Levine, ol Waco. has accepted position with Friedman the pawabFeker. on Main street.
 Miss Alma Dewoody will leave shortly for Charlotte, N. C. where she will enter school for the winter. Mir. .. c. Kinney, a representative insurance man of Dallas, Texas. ia calling on his agency in this eitg to- day.
 Mir. w. H. Adams and family re- turned this morning from a several weeks stay with relatives at ghiea- go and Danyille, Illinois.
 Miss Nittie Knox will Iea4e the letter part of the week for Nashville, Tenn, where she will re-enter Bel mont college.
 Wise men 20 for blocks passing many stores to buy bottle of "Vollmerp whisky, being absolutely puses makes ii safe for home aud family use 83 ! Little John Brlce Butterworth fs confined to his room today with fever.
 MT. L.D- Mitchell and wife of this city were yesterday registered a the Clarendon House in Memphis.
 Mir. Floyd A. Jarvis, of Noble Lake, is business visitor in the city today. He says bis hands have be- gun picking cotton in earnest.
 Messrs Alex RoweH, Percy Meyer Edwin Galbraith, Harvy Hogg and : bob York will depart for college in few days. < Mir A. U. Fay. gentlemanly and popular trayeling man of New Yor0 City, is in the city. Mir. Fay repre- eents a large carpet, rug and mat ting concern r Mrs. s. N Taylor, wife and { { daughter, Miss Maggie, returned this morning from several weeks 3D. jOurn in Colorado. All are much improved in health and report Ii m0, ,t delightful time.
 Af RouR kiGERS s $ . 2 z. dRs Lss2 : /: :
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

Tickets ail styles, or picket fence complete. Bluff CitY Lumber Go. 2g7
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

Tine summer is not quIte over yet. The thermometer at this writing (2 D. m registers Ito degrees in the shade.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

Kosher Sausage and Weinerwurst received Tuesdayt and Fridays at |. J Bloom g. Both phones. b
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

Fresh Fish daily at 1. J. Bloom E meat market. Both phones. b
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

Mir Joe Altheimef has gone to the Eastern markets. where he will, as usual, select and purchase com piefe and pretty stock of goods for his establishment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

Prof J C. Weissner. the expert dancing master. has returned to Lit tie Rock after brief visit with friends in this city. Prof. Weissher will conduct a dancing academy at Birmingham, Ala, this winter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

Only few unimportaat eases were in the police court this morning. One was that of Sissy Mcdonnell, who resisted arrest on the charge of disturbing the peace, She gave off cer eh8s. Rority B chase when he at tempted to arrest her
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

A special car of pretty Misses pass ed through Pin Bluff last night. They were en route to Tennessee and Kentucky, where they will enter school.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

FtIs 5 pleasure ta cal Tor whisky and gel a brand that is not aoetored or eoIored- something Uuie. aVoHmers whisky is guar anteeC pure. ss
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

NF. Sol B0nlt8. 0I BaItIm0re. and one or the most widely known knights of the griB n the States, is calling on Pine Bluff trade today. MT. Bonite is known 10 many as sthe cute and handsome drummer" with umbrellas as his guide.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-05

Conductor JP. Lynch. of the Cot ton Belt, has just returned from several days vacation with his fam fly at Greencastle, Ind.
The evening times., 1899-04-05
The Cubans' Opportunity.

The Cuban Assembly preferred dissolu-
uon 10 mobbing. 1t might have come TO
that if the Cuban soldiers had been forced
by the stupid malignity of that body 10
see an American vessel steaming out of
Havana harbor with the precious three
millions of specie intended for them 1t
was the resolve of General Brooke 10 send
the money back that brought matters to a
climax The Cuban army has been very
patient and as free from pugnacity as it
was during the American war on the Span
iards at Santiago; but the loss of the mon
ey would have awakened il TO violence and
the lampposts of Havana might have been
decorated with members of the Assembly
At any rate il was the fear OF that which
led TO the order for the disbanding of the
idle army and the dissolution of the mis-
chierous Assembly.
This removes the only menace to the
quiet administration of the government by
the Americans. As long as the shrill-
voiced demagogues seemed to have an Of
ficial standing their attacks on this Gov
ernment had a possibility of mischief.
They gave encouragement to the lawless
element, which looks upon the police and
the American troops as natural enemies
They seemed 10 show that Cuban gov
ernment was overawed by a foreign power
and offered nucleus for an insurrection-
airy movement. Indeed, that was boldly
urged. OF course, there was never a fear
of any actual resistance for the Cuban
people are in full sympathy with General
Gomez and are satisfied with American ad-
ministratiOn, but in the interests of peace
and good will the dissolution of the AS
sembly and the disbanding of the army
must have a good effect.
With The money they receive from this
Government the soldiers who have rot
already pledged the full amount to greedy
spectators can go into the country and
make fair beginning of self-support
With less attention TO questions of poll
tics and more 10 business they can hope for
final emergence from the poverty of the
] present into an unprecedented prosperity
! The bane OF their lives since the overthrow
OF Spain has been their concern for indie
| pendence, although il could be of no bene-
! fit TO a poverty stricken, idle, and riotous
| people. What they need to do is to work
like driven slaves and save like misers
until the shadow of penury is dissipated;
TO damn politics and politicians, reserve
their breath for plowing and planting and
reaping. and trust TO the Americans to
protect the island from the demagogue yul-
lures who pose as patriots. Spain was de-
feated in vain if freedom does not lead to
industry and efforts al self-improvement.
The government will take care of itself
if the citizens will labor for their own
progress.
The evening times., 1899-04-05
Historic Places.

The fertile brain of some patriotic
American lately conceived the idea of es-
tablishing an American Valhalla, 10 be to
England, and The Times suggested that
if anything OF the kind was ever done it
would be well that the national cemetery
should be situated in The West. in the midst
of the grandest scenery of which our land
can boast. Ii. as recent magazine writer
suggests. we are destined practically to
take possession of the Pacific Ocean, Colo
RADIO Will be very nearly in the centre of the
country, so that any one of the Rocky
Mountain districts would have the advan-
tage Of cenraliGy. should it be selected as
a site for the American national cemetery.
But il is not really likely that ANYTHING of
the sort will be done, unless something
should happen 10 create great popular i'm
pulse in that direction. If some multi
millionaire were 10 buy a tract of land
and give ii 10 the Government for that
purpose, with a good round sum of money
for current expenses. that would make the
dream a reality at once; but nothing less
than that is likely to be of any effect, and
such an act of munificence is beyond the
bounds of probability.
There is one thing which might well re-
ceive attention, however, which would be
much less expensive than a great ma
tional cemetery. and that is the preserva-
tion Of such historic places and houses as
we already have. England has attended to
this matter most sedulously. though even
in that country some old landmarks are
undergoing demolition TO satisfy the greed
of land spectators. But the growth of
England has been slow, and her inhabi-
tants have a constitutional dislike TO sud
den changes which Interfere with tradition
Hence the richness of her cities and coun-
every sort. Perhaps not many people even
in England know how Charing Cross Sta
ton got its name. As those know who have
been in London, there is a massive stone
cross just outside the station in the midst OF
the hurrying throng of men, horses, and
vehicles-a relic of forgotten centuries
This cross was one of those erected by
Edward | of England TO mark the success
sive resting places of Queen Eleanor's
n.
where she died. to its final tomb. The
journey took many days, and wherever the
sad little procession stayed its steps for a
night King Edward ordered a stone cross
erected. so that a chain of crosses marks
the course of that pathetic journey. And
the cross which stands in the heart of
London has never been removed, though
nearly a thousand years have passed over
il since. with heralds and men-at- arms in
attendance the builders laid the last
stone But if that cross we3e in the mid
die of Broadway how long would it have
stood under the constantly changing rulers
of New York?
There are one or two towns in the older
parts of the country where old traditions
have been carefully preserved. Concord,
Mass, is one, and there are Southern cities
The evening times., 1899-04-05
PosToFFICES IN HAVANA.
Military and Civil Bureaus to BE
Consolidated.

Havana. April "a consolidation of the
military and civil postofIices in Havana
will be effected during the early part OF
the present month and the two sites now
occupied Will be abandoned for the more
desirable and healthful quarters which
were secured some time ago and have been
undergoing reconstruction ever since.
No branch OF the government in Cuba
has been found so difficult TO reorganiZe
as the postal service and even NOW it is in
a most satisfactory condition. The chaos
in which il had been allowed 10 remain
for so many years prevented the pOssibili-
" of the Strengthening matters out within
a reasonable time and the difficulty was
further augmented by the mistaken policy
of giving incompetent Cubans responsible
positions simply for the sake Of giving
them employment. The reorganization
was planned on the advanced ideas char
acteriStic of the service in the United
States, but inexperienced Cubans were ex-
pected TO inauglyate it, The almost i'm
mediate result was the cOmplicajing OF
the old and new systems in so aggravated
a manner that the most objectionable er-
rors were made aud great quantities OF
mail lost. Included in the latter was con-
siderable money and each day discovers
some new victim who has just been made
aware of his loss.
For a time it was common talk that 10
mail money in letters vas equivalent 10
presenting that amount 10 the clerks.
\ corps Of Secret Service men was put
10 work and after half dozen arrests had
been made. a little more security Was Civ
en- the confding patrons of the postal
service.
When the consolidation of the offices is
an accomplished fact, Director of Posts
Rathbone, promises the people of Havana
a better service.
The evening times., 1899-04-05

here and there whose history is written in
their streets. But as general thing NE
pay too little attention to houses and land
marks which are connected with our histo-
ry or our literature Why should not the
Government. whenever practicable, pur-
chase old-time houses, especially those
with which the history OF some great man
is associated? Why should not we have
our Burns cottage, our Ho,yrood, our Car
lyle house2 Five hundred years from
now what would not our descendants
give if they could see intact, just
as 1t is today, some old colonial
mansion of the South, fragrant with
the history of some family which helped
to make the State? What would they
not give to have preserved to them the
dwelling of some man who is now helping
to mold American literature? You may go
to England and see the very room in
which Carlyle wrote "Sartor Resartus; -
you may sit in the Old Cheshire Tavern,
where wits foregathered for two centuries
and. more. The growth of this country
has been so rapid that we have not many
gathering places which are al all compare
BILE to the old taverns OF London but we
have some. Why should not these one By
one be taken in charge by ire Govern
ment, and not left TO the m,rry of pTi-
vate individuals or communities? The men
who made these places famous did their
work for the nation; the nation should
help to preserve tn air memory.
The evening times., 1899-04-05

niabiy above all personal bribery will often
accept the candidates the party organiza-
tion offers them. Partisanship blinds them
to the virtues of candidate not OF their
party and to the vices of their own. There
are times, however. when men rise above
this. When corruption is obvious, all who
are involved in ii are buried out of sight
for all time At no time is il pos5ib for
anybody to carry a popular election by
such corrupt methods as are some times
employed in the control of a Legislature.
Ordinarily. the man who achieves a nom
ination by the majority party is elected
even when his character is not above sus-
plcion; but man who has nothing but
money. like Addicks, for example, cannot
be nominated and would be defeated if he
were the party candidate. 1t is not the
corruption CT the people that we have 10
Tear, but tie spirit of party fea-ty when
candidates are unworthy. Even with this
there would be a distinct gain by making
senatorial elections popular. The people
are more sensitive to evidence of dishones-
ty than their legislators. II the change
were made, there would be less profit in
holding legislative Office and less induce
ment for the worst class to fight for it.
The best pickings are by all odds these of
senatorial fight, especially when rival
millionaires can be persuaded to bid for
the prize.
The evening times., 1899-04-05
A Severe Case of Quincy

common criticism of the Christian
Science person is that he is inconsistent.
While he denies the existence of the mate
rial universe, including the human body
and its arrangements, he demands very
material dollar to provide for the wants of
his unreal body. His explanation is that
he is only far enough advanced to realize
the delusiye nature OF bodily disease. He
is able to think he is not sick, but not to
act up to the belief that he is not hungry
and cold and sleepy. He hopes in time
to reach a higher plane where he can
practically Danish the fancy that he is
hungry. He aspires to the greater height
where he can discard the belief in death
and so escape the distressing fallacy that
he has body and that life has left it, He
is sure We disappear only because we
think We are dead and our belief impresses
others so that they, Imagine they see the
corpse. = f$I
The most advanced of the Christian
Quincy, Mayor of Boston He believes that
he is at home sick, but does not believe
it as strongly as other persons would and
do. He is in fair way to convince his
mind that it is all delusion. But in an
other particular he is superb. He wears
no hose. He believes cold is a fancy and
il should not induce one to make provision
against il. He wears other garments be-
cause of world given over TO vain imag-
inings If he should discard all clothing it
would shock mankind. so he goes only
far enough 10 abandon the habit of
wearing hose. The doctors who have
seen him in the coldest winter weather
expose his bare ankles as a High
lander his knees, affirm that he has taken
cold and is sick. 1t is their confident be-
lief in this that prevents the mayor from
rising out of his bed and attending TO busi-
ness-for even the Christian Science per-
son is influenced by the opinions of those
about him.
The most striking instance OF this was
the death of Pasteur and four other emf
nent bacteriologists. An English woman,
doctor who had achieved prominence for
her war on vivisection. admitted that she
had killed them all by willing their death
and believing in her success. II is no won
der. therefore. that Mayor Quincy cannot
make himself believe he is wholly we'll
when all the doctors are thinking he is
sick But ne cannot be driven into
wearing hose.
The evening times., 1899-04-05
PeanIe and LegisIat0rs.

There is no greater fallacy than the be
lief that because Legislators are yenal. the
people who elect them are corrupt. There
is not State and not community. large
or small, in this country. in which the
honest and inoorruptible men are not in
an overwhelming majority. They can at
any time, in an election involving the
whole. bury out of sight the vicious
classes. 1t happens, however, that in csr-
tain wards and assembly districts in the
large cities the criminal class is large
enough to effect the election of aldermen
and legislative representatives For all
other offices the honest citizens, acting to-
gether. could always decide the contest
The only reason they do not is because
Of the strength OF party spirit. Men I'm ie-
The evening times., 1899-04-05
The Political Outlook.

ttrom the Atlanta COnStltutlon.l
Now, those who think the Democratic party
defeated account of the Chicago platform
forget the real and tremendous handicap under
which the party labored. 1t compelled to
bear the awful burden of Clevelandism 1t had
in moment of wild imbecility made itself re-
sponsbe for Cleveland. and, though it repudiated
him completely as party can repudate a
man, the people wanted victim. Their idea
that Cleveland would have had no opportu
nifty TO wreck and ruin the business of the coun-
try but for the Democratic party; and so the
organization had TO suffer the consequences But
for the Chicago platform the party would have
gone TO pieces entirely.
We may safely say, therefore, that there are
some big surprises in store for those who believe
that the Chicago platform contributed to or
caused the defeat of the party. There are other
and newer issues Of moment, and these will be
taken up and dealt with but there is none so
VITAL so far-reaching, al-imporant, as the
financial question. As money Itself is the most
important thing in business, so the general ques-
tion that affects its issue and circulation is the
most important issue in politics, and will remain
so until il is settled.
The evening times., 1899-04-05
DEADLY N1rRoaLYcER1NE.
Three Killed by an Explosion Nea,
Pittnburg.

Pittsburg April 5.-Nitroglycerine ex-
ploding in the Schooley railroad torpedo
factory, at Copeland Station, on the Penn
sylvania Railroad nine miles east of Pitts
burg, yesterday afternoon killed three men,
injured another. and destroyed the build
ing. The dead are:
VIII S. Schooley, owner, of Braddock, in
stantly killed; Fred Richmond, residing
on Lobinger Street, Braddock, died from
injuries in few moments: Glide House
holder, instantly killed and body badly
burned, lived at Shady Park.
Injured. Andrew Sheppard, contractor.
badly hurt but will likely recover
1t was shortly after o'clock when the
residents of Copeland were startled by an
explosion which shook the houses in the
vicinity as if by an earthquake.
The air was filled with dust and smoke.
but as soon as this cleared away it was
discovered that the torpedo factory, a
large brick structure on the line of the
railroad and near the station, was on fire.
The building was badly wrecked, one
wall having been blown out, all the win
dowS broken, and part Of the roof carried
away.
AS soon as possible those gathered about
the building made their way inside. The
uedu DOuy OF ScHOOley was Ine HESt TedCu-
ed. 1t was badly mangled. The searchers
next came to the body Of Richmond. He
was still living, but died before he reached
the building TO which he was being car
ried.
The last one reached was Householder
who was partly buried under the wreckage
of the wall. When reached life was ex-
tinct and the body was badly burned, but
not enough to prevent Identification.
Andrew Sheppard was entsring the build
ing when the explosion occurred. He es-
capped with painful injuries. He was out of
the building before the people attracted by
the explosion had reached the spot.
Schooley was a well-known resident of
Braddock and had been engaged In the
torpedo business for some years. He was
married, and leaves a wife but no
children. This was the third explosion Of
the kind in the factory.
The evening times., 1899-04-05
MOTOR CAR KILLS A CHILD.
Seven-Y Girl Nangied in
EUst nREtimore

Baltimore. Md, April 5.-Lottie Behner.
seven years old, daughter OF Peter Behner
of East Baltimore. was almost instantly
killed yesterday by being run over by car
No. 40e, of the Green line OF the United
Railways Company, at the northeast corner
of Chesapeake and O'Donnel Streets.
About 400 p. m, the little girl started
to cross the street in front of the car.
when she was struck by the fender and
WAS Knocked down and pulled beneath il.
The motorman, Louis H. Spilker, made
every effort to avert the accident. but he
was unable to bring his car to stop until
the front wheels had run over the child
and mangled her.
The body was taken into the Office of DR..
z. j. Williams and was thence sent home
The motorman was arrested and was re-
leased for the action of a jury of inquest
summoned by Coroner Riley to meet at the
eastern police station tonight.
The evening times., 1899-04-05
& Mx.stified Waiter.
(From tie Chicago Chronicle }

Ii was in one of the large downtown restau-
rants that the short little woman and her tall
husband went for dinner night last week
..Will YOU have eysters?" asked the man,
glancng over the bill of fare.
Yes said the short little woman as she
tried in vain to touch her toes to the floor; land
john | want hassock.
John nodded, and he handed his order to
the waiter. he said: .Yes, and bring a hassock
for the lady," ~
..One hassork?' asked the waiter, with what
John thought more than ordinary interest as
he nodded in the affirmative. Still the waiter
did not go, but brushed the tabecloth with q
towel and res,rraDged the articles on it several
times, while his lace got very red. Then Ire
came around to Johns side. and, speaking sotto
svoce said: .Say,1 mister, l haven't been here
long. and Pm nnt ON to all these things Will
~the lady haye The iassock bfoilcd or fried!''
The evening times., 1899-04-05
Ideas in Order.
From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER

OFrom the Cincinnati EnquiTcr.(
The public will expect the next message iron
President Mckinley to Congress to be a suggest
i've paper, though it is, perhaps. not accustomed
10 look for anything stirring from that quarter
This, though will be the last annual message
before the holding of the Republican national
convention. and there will be a lot of people
who viii hold the old-fashioned opinion that Mr.
Mckinley should be indebted TO something be
sides luck and the skill of politicians for his
entrance a second Presidential campaign. The
questions arising from trusts will be so ripe
by the first Monday in December that they will
be falling from the trees