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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14

Mr.. Woolley, the Prohibition candidate
for the Presidency, is campaigning in Ohio.
where he is speaking to good audiences
largely composed of former Republicans.
The army canteen is the paramount issue
with him, and while it is not probable that
his vote Will be considerable 1t will amount
to little bit off the top of the Mckinley
and Roosevelt aggregate.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14

From the Springfield (iass.) Republican,
What the people of Porto Rico actually do hold
at the hands of the United States in the way
Of government is simply the right to suggest
local laws, TO propose local laws, and that is
all they hold, and TO call that self government
is a mockery of the term. 1t is nothing less than
an unqualified depotism which is provided for the
island and that of alien character
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14

Dickens. There is not line, out of all
that he has written, which is even an
attempt to gloss over a hypocrisy. Sin,
in his pages, is openly portrayed in its ug-
illness: social pretensions arc unsparingly
ridiculed; religious and philanthropic
hypocrites called forth all the bitterness
there was in the nature of this singularly
wholesome minded man. In an age of
cant, of social fiction. of REORGANIZATION,
and oversubtlety, Dickens was the revo-
lutionary influence. He strobe through
the formalities as if they were spider
webs. and threw open shutters which de-
corous convention, wishing to hide foul
corners, had decreed should be closed.
He created types rather than people, but
nobody, up to that time, had done much
more. His types were SO multifarious
and SO infinitely numerous that his books
as a whole give a fairly good picture Of
human nature; and he never repeated HIM
self. As to his women, critics have die
fered: but Mr.. William Dean Howells is
not e critic. He is simply pushing
person, poorly educated, who has managed
tc thrive on the production of ten or
twelve of the stupidest novels known to
English literature.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14
Mr.. Mrlnrd,s New Play.

LONDON. Oct 13.-Mr. f. 5. Willard
has commenced rehearsals of Elwyn Bar
ron's play of 'Punchenello." which he will
produce at the fremont Theatre, in Bos-
ton. He will leave England on October q.
direct for Boston.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14
Apathy in Connecticut.

NrrVH eIe HHIuOru OUuiant'J
The campaign in Connecticut puzzles some
observers. S\ere is coniessedly not the outward
sign Of en- siasm on either side that there
was four years ago. Then the atmosphere was
full of electricity Today there is NO such ex-
cited condition.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14
Hark to the Ice Man.

From the Chicago Chronicle)
II ever a man was damned with faint praise
William Mckinley has received that dubious
compliment at the hands Of Benjamin Harrison.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14

From the Ohio State Journal)
Mrs Hibbits-where were you last night, my
dear?
Mr.. Enthusiastically, my love, l don't know
had no guide book.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14

1.-The growth of the cotton mill industry
in the United States within the past ten
years is estimated as follows by the Tex
tile World published at Boston:
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14
Unlimited.

"BiGkins seems to be pretty self-eoniident
sort of a fellow
.'Self-confdentf Why. he's got more confidence
in himself than a woman has in her family physi-
clan"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14

We are in agreement with another Rus
sian proposal. 1t is the one previously
discussed in these columns to refer any
disagreement of the powers to the inter-
national court of arbitration at The Hague.
France also has acceded to the proposition,
the beauty of which is that it affords Rus
STA an opportunity to disagree at con-
venience and thus to secure any desired de-
lay in the process of reaching settlement
Of the Chinese question. With the support
of two great powers to start with, there
should be fair chance Of accomplishing
the coup. Russia, meantime, will be
Strengthening her hold upon Manchuria.
and by the time the tribunal in Holland
has deliberately passed upon few sue
cessive disagreements submitted TO it the
Gear will be firmly planted in northern
China and in the Laoting peninsula, both
of which he will cheerfully surrender after
the last tael of an enormous money indem-
nifty has been paid to him which. accord
ing to precedent and the ability Of the
Chinese Empire to raise money. will be
one day after never. We wonder which
one among the several great financial and
Industrial combinations in partnership
with the Administration is to reap the
harvest sown in this playing OF the cats
paw for Russia?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14
Betting Has Begun Hereby a

Betting Has Begun Hereby Gu
rious coincidence the Presidential betting
opened up in Washington on the very
same day this year as it began in the
last campaign, and at about the same
terms. On the 18th of October, 1896 the
first public bet of that campaign was
posted with A. W. Noack, at Shoemaker's.
and yesterday the same parties posted
bet with Mr.. Noack for about the same
amount and on about the same terms. A
well-known Republican bet a well known
Democrat $500 to 800 on the general re-
suit, and a Maryland Republican bet a
Maryland Democrat 800 to $40 that that
State would be carried by Mckinley. Elk
actly these odds on both propositions pre-
vailed in the betting at Shoemaksr's at
this time in the last campaign, and be-
fore the betting there ceased NOack was
stakeholder for $4,000 of Republican
money against $500 Democratic money.
II is expected that the betting in Wash
ington will become lively from this time
forward, though 1t Is observed by old
timers that bettors here are much more
timid than they were ever known to be
before. This fairly gauges the public
opinion of Washington. 1t goes without
saving that II the Republicans were so
certain of the result in November as they
claim to be they would be eager to get
a chance at all the money in sight. 1t is
believed that the betting on Maryland
will be liyelier here than on any other
proposition.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14

The President had hard and hand
shaky day Of it yesterday. First. the SUI
preme Court called on him: next foot
ball team pumphandled His Excellency in
the most condescending and muscular man
ner. 1t was an Indian school team, and
the members delighted Mr.. Mckinley with
their collegiate warwhoop. Finally Jeffer-
son NJ. Levy capped the climax, as sore as
bear with broken head over his turn
down in New York. Our Chief Magistrate
was naturally exhausted when the triology
had been played out; but he has a Won
derful personal constitution. his plain
duty to which he never departs from, and
which he never violates. At a thoroughly
respectable hour he seized his bedroom
candle and retired, humming the words Of
that beautiful poem which begins: How
pleasant is Saturday night, when we've
tried all the week to be good.''
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14
MFR. Quay. Bad Health. In h

MFR. Quny's Bad Health. In his swing
around the circle in Pennsylvania, the
Hon. Matthew Stanley Quay winds up
every one of his cute little speeches in
this style: And now. my fellow citi-
zens. I see that have been betrayed into
making you speech. My doctors have
forbidden me to speak, but the tempta
ton to do so when fuce you is too strong
to resist. You must excuse me, however,
for not talking to you at greater length
but, as / said before, my doctors have
positively forbidden me to speak at all. -
This appears to be having the desired
effect upon Mr.. Quay's audiences. The
implication is that Mr.. Quay is a sick
man, when, as a matter of fact, he is
in better health at present than he has
enjoyed for many years. The secret of
Colonel Quays stereotyped excuse for
making such short speeches is that he is
not now and never was a stump speak
err. In speech he is felcitous enough
but he is lacking in the chief qualifica-
ton of the campaign orator-luDg poxer
Heretofore the ex-senator has been able
to conceal this from the mass of Penn
sylvanians by reason of the fact that he
usually has managed to get too busy
with other and larger affairs when cam
paigns were on to show himself on the
stump. 1t is said he actually fears that
if the people whom he has represented
for so long a time learn of his vocal
weakness they will be so disappointed
that they will desert him. On this score
it is submitted that Mr. Quays harm
less little deception about the advice Of
his doctors is entirely excusable and ad-
missihle though it is thought he I'M
duly exaggerates the Importance Of the
thing. s=-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14

Cause and Effect.
(From Puek.)
"Have you and May quaFreledf'
Yes
Difference OF opinion?'
nc; We both thought be was perfectly
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Connecting Doinr,,-,. vii, be

"SomethfnE DOinE.''-It will be re-
called that about three months ago state
ment was made by the Adjutant General
of the Army, ostensibly at the direction of
the Secretary of War, that the thirty-fve
regiments Of volunteers now serving in
the Philippines would be withdrawn about
the list of November The Times and a
few other newspapers anticipated this for
NAL announcement two or three months,
and when the Adjutant General issued an
official statement on the subject the coun-
try was so we'll prepared for it that the
statement did not produce the political
sensation that had been planned. Around
the War Department, and especially in the
office OF the Adjutant General, there Is
considerable activity at present indicating
that the Administration is getting ready
to play its last Philippine trick previous to
election day. Whether or not the Ad1utant
General is preparing the order for the
withdrawal of the volunteers in the Orient
cannot be learned. 1t is believed. however,
that he is preparing a statement on the
subject which he confidently believes Will
have a better political effect than would
an order for the troops to be started home
at certain date. This statement, 1t Is
thought, will contain the startling asser-
tion that in view of recent occurrences in
the Philippines it is considered advisable
to continue the troops there up to the very
limit of their enlistment. which expires
July 1, 1901. The Adjutant General. it is
said, will delicately and artfully intimate
in this statement that the agitation in this
country against the Administration s-or
the Government s''-Philippin policy has
brought about such condition of affairs
in the archipelago that il would be danger
Gus to withdraw single soldier from the
islands at this time. He will thus at
tempt to put upon Mr.. Bryan and his sup
porters full responsibility for holding the
volunteers in the Philippines longer than
the Administrators the Government"
had magnanmously intended that they
should be held. A statement embodying
the ideas and allegations here touched upon
will be issued either by the Adjutant Gen
eral in the name Of General Miles or in
next ten days, SO it is intimated in high
circles. 1t will be great joke and withal
very characteristic joke, II General Miles
name should be attach d to the statement,
for it is perfectly well understood by every
intelligent American that General Miles
has been permitted to have nothing more
to do with the direction Of the army for
the past two years than has Aguinaldo
himself. Still, General Miles is very pop
ular and is regarded by the public as a
soldier and not politician. The use Of his
name, therefore, for the purpose indicated
would serve the Administration at this
point quite well.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14

Richardson A1ert.-The Hon. James D.
Richardson has Joined Mr.. Bryan in Ohio,
and will accompany him to New York next
week. 1t is thought that Mr.. Richardson's
mission to Mr.. Bryan at this time per-
tains wholly to the Congressional cam
paign. He is chairman of the Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee. and for
a month has been directing the affairs of
that organization from headquarters in
New York City, thougho his headquarters
in Washington are still maintained. and
force of Intelligent clerks have been car
rying on the business In the absence of
the chairman. 1t is thought that as a re-
suit OF Mr.. Richardson's representations,
Mr.. Bryan will make a plea in all of his
speeches in the East for the Democratic
Congressional nominees. In point of fact,
Mr.. Bryan already has begun TO do this in
Ohio, and it is confidently expected that
his pleas there and elsewhere will be eff
fective. Democrats interpret this to mean
that Mr.. Bryan is now certain Of his own
election. and believes it incumbent upon
him to plead for House 10 back him in
the earliest aims and purposes of his Ad
ministration. not the least Of which Is con-
tanned in a solemn pledge he made in his
speech OF acceptance at indianapolis in
August that If elected he would imme-
diately summon Congress to his aid in
dealing with the Philippine question. Mr.
Bryan. it is conceded even by the Repub-
licans. can very materially assist the
Democrats in their fight for Congressional
seats in New York. Maryland, West Vir-
ginia Delaware, New Jersey, and Penn
sylvania. and it is said that he will make
a special effort in that direction from now
to the close of his campaign in the East.
AS it is almost certain that the Democrats
will lose member or two in New York,
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania it be-
hooves them to make the strongest pos
sible efforts to Offset these losses in Mary
land. Delaware. and West Virginia. in or
der that their control of the next House
will be assured.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
An Historic Bell

Chester (Pa.) Special Philadelphia Inquirer: John Wetherill has found and will have placed in tower on the Oak Grove sehoolhouse bell with luminous record. It is said by the his torian that when the people of Chester heard that the Declaration of Inde- pendence had been signed they ran to the courthouse, where this bell then hung, and rang it most of the day, much to the discontinue of the many tories. The old bell was cast in 1729. Tn 1850, when the county seat was moved to Media, the borough of Chester purchased the buildings and the bell was removed to the old school house. Tn 1885 new building was erected. and the bell was placed in the loft Of the new building and forgotten. There is now a movement on to have great ceremony over the moving.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
Wanted to See the Baby.

Some young women, according to a Philadelphia paper, noticed foreign looking man pushing a closed baby carriage. Their curiosity was aroused and one of them asked to see the baby that was so completely covered. The man hesitated but finally succumbed to the girls glances, and, unbuttoning the apron, he disclosed small, round gentleman, with mustache and Napo- leon, quietly chewing an unlighted cigar. The girls were speechiess with surprise and shame for having in truded on the mans privacy, although he was a tiny one. under three feet in length. He graciously pardoned the women as he stroked his mustache, and invited them to see him at the export exposition, where he has just arrived to be exhibited. Then, bidding them good-by, he ordered his attend ant to continue with the daily ride.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
RHEUMATISM CATARRH ARE BLOOD
 DISEASES-.FREEi

It is the deep-seated, obstinate cases of Catarrh and Rheumatism that B, B. B. (botanic blood baim) cures. It matt ters not what other treatments, doc- tors, sprays, liniments, medicated air, blood purifiers, have failed to do, B. B. B. always promptly reaches the real cause and roots out and drives from the bones, joints, mucous membrane, and entire system the specific poison in the blood that causes rheumatism and eatarrh. B. B. E. is the only rem. edy strong to do this and cure so there can never be a return of the symptoms. Don't give up hope but ask your drug eist for B. B. B.-botanic blood balm or 3 bs.-Large bottles one dollar, six bottles (full treatmenD five dollars. B. B. B. is an honest remedy that makes real cures of all blood diseases after everything else fails. We have abso- lute confidence in Botanic blood balm; hence, so you may test 1t, we @lll send trial bottle free on request. Personal medical advice free. Address,
 BLOOD BALM CO,
 222 Micthell St., Atlanta, Ga.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
Strange Story of a Watch.

4 strange experience recently befel George Dietz, formerly resident of Chester, Pa, but at the present time in the jewelry business in Honolulu. MT. Dietz has recovered a watch which he lost over thirty years ago at Gettys- burg. He was fighting for the north on that bloody battlefield when he dropped it. The watch was recently brought into the jewellers shop by Harry Ellis of the Kansas volunteers. The soldier, who was bound to Manila, wanted to sell it. On being asked where he got it he said his father, who had found it on the battlefield of Get tysburg, had given it to him. The jew eler opened it and saw his name scratched on it. He lost no time in making q trade with the soldier.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13

Many so-ealled bitters" are not
 medicines. but simply liquors dis. guised, so as to evade the law. prickly Ash Bitters is not one of this class. It is strictly medicine. act ing primarily on the kidneys, liver and bowels, and for the dangerous diseases that attack these organs it is a remedy of the first grade. There is nothing objectionable in it's taste, it has a very agreeable flavor and is acceptable to the most delicate stomach Sold by Walker Drug Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
BULL FIGHT AT BouLooNE.
Foreigners pisgnetea at the nlooash,

Foreigners Disguised at the Bloodshed
 About fortnight ago bullfght took place at Boulogne in spite of the threat of the national government to enforce the law against such combats. The exhibition was held at 10 o'clock in the evening under the electric light. Several hundred excursionists went in three specially chartered steamers from Hastings and Brighton. Persons who beheld the spectacle and who had seen the bullfghts at Madrid are of the opinion that it was one of the most bloodthirsty= eombats that they had fought for life six bulls were killed by the daring skill of the Spanish and French toreadors. La Layerito killed three bulls with three thrusts and two misses. Robert also killed three after several misses. Three horses were slain in the arena, two of them being frightful1y mangled. A picador was also hurt, as one of the bulls gored his horse and pressed him against the bar rier. During the performance panic was started by the swaying of one of the tiers of seats, and about 5000 men and women clambered over each other toward the narrow exists. Happily the crowd was quieted. When the gorging of the horses began, several English women in the crowd fainted, and were removed by their escorts. Before the scene was half over about a third of the spectators had quietly retired. They were mostly foreigners and open ly expressed their disgust.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
Gold in American Teeth.

On the authority of the greatest man ufacturer of dental supplies in the country there are over 10000 ounces of pure gold worked Up annually for dentists uses for material in filling teeth, in plates and soldiers, the value of this gold approximating $1.000.0O0.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
A Curious Accident.

curious accident took place at Brookfeld, Ind. A local freight train was backed into siding to allow a fast freight train to pass. The switch was left open. however, and the fast freight, travelling at the rate of thirty miles an hour, dashed into it. The crews. of both trains jumped The i'm pact of the collision was so severe as to drive the tender of the stationary train off it's truck. and telescoping a cattle car, which was loaded with coal, it rested half on the top of the third car On the fast freight a car loaded with hogs was telescoped by one load ed with shelled corn, and the animals not killed in the collision were smoth- cred by the corn. It is said that the locomotives are so interlocked that dynamite will be required to separate them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
SUNS JOURNEY.
Velocity Is Between Six and Twelve
 Miles Per second.
Twelve

Velocity Is Between Six and Twelve
 Miles Per second.
 By means of the spectroscope we can obtain a probably more accurate deter- imitation of the suns velocity through space, says the Gentleman's Magazine As is well known the velocity of star in the line of sight can be found by the displacement of the li.te= .Ia.5le in the stars spectrum. Now t1e stars near the position of the solar apex" should be approaching the earth on account of the solar motion, and those at the opposite point of the sky-ealled the "anti-apex should be receding. This method has been en- ployed by several astronomers, espec- ially by Vogel at the Potsdam obserVa- tory. This able astronomer has found from an examination of forty stars that the suns velocity through space is about seven and one-half miles a sec ond, and an examination of larger number of stars would be necessary before We could consider this result as thoroughly established. From an ex animation of the spectra of fourteen nebulae, Prof. Keeler of the Lick ob- servatory has found veloeities in the line Of sight and from these the French astronomer Tisserand has deduced a velocity of about nine and one-thfrd miles for the solar motion, a result which does not differ widely from that found by Vogel. We may, therefore, perhaps conclude that the velocity of the suns motion through space is be- tween six and twelve miles per second. The average velocity of the stars meas ured at Potsdam is about ten and one- half miles a second and possibly the sun may have a similar velocity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
ARKANS AS RIVER PACKET CO.,.

MD ROWLAND. Pres. & Gen. MnRr.
 c. E. PHILPOT General Ageg. Boat Leaves Memphis every Tues day at D. m
 Boat leaves Pine Bluff every Fri day at II a. m.
 We make lowest rates from and to all points.
 Telephone No. for general ia rmati ou.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13

The Senate adopted a resolution calling upon Mckinley for informa- ton concerning the recent garroting of Puerto Ricans The President is asked to explain why that method was used.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
worshipine the rearfu1 Onion.

The onion was worshiped by the an- cient Egyptians. The caulifower is patrician among vegetables and was taken from it's Cyprus home to Italy and England in the reign of Elizabeth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
Clay Pipe Hair Curriers'.

Should you see a woman in a to9ac- cenist shop buying clay pipes sont ia- fer that she smokes. Some one has discovered that clay pipe stems when heated give the hair softer and more naturs! curl than irons.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13
 TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The Secretary of the Navy urges Congress to make such changes in the naval laws as will bring the vessels up to the first degree of off ciency. The battleships are under manned and insnfileiently officered.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13

Indigestion is the direct cause ot diseases that kill thousands of per- tons annually. Stop the trouble at the outset with little Priekly Ash Bitters; it strengthens the stomach and aids digestion. Sold by Walker Drug Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13

The family that keeps on hand and uses occasionally the celebrated Prickly Ash Bitters is always a well regulated family. For sale by Walker Drug Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13

John Seaton of Atchison, kas, de- sires 10 succeed Leland as National Com mitteeman.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-13

The Senate authorized q public building at Carthage. Mo-, to cost $112,000