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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
nrltlah Flag as . Pigeon Nesr.

\ London pigeon recently took pos session of q union jack kept in the bell ringing room of St. Clement Dane's church for Use on festive occasions to spare herself =thez trouble of building nest. On this flag she deposited two eggs which sine matched successfully.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
SEVEN MILES OF OLD CARS.
Convicts In Wyoming Breaking Up Worn
 Out Railroad Material

Seven miles of condemnation is long-drawn-out affair even for the west. But it stands as a western growth near the state penitentiary at Laramie, Wyo., where convicts are daily engaged in making it an ever lessening fact. For many months the inspectors of the Union Pacific railroad have scrutinized the thousands of freight cars that handle the overland traffic When debilitated car Of low capacity or unemployed with air brakes rattled past 1t was branded as con- demned, and, if empty, was shunted off on the side track built to be last refuge for the doomed cars. This process continued fer months till the cars, averaging thirty feet in length, reached 8 total length of seven miles. This distance WAS =ascertained by local statistieians. who, in the interests of railroad history Bedaled their hieg- cles along the line and measured il with their eyelometers. These cars are humpbaeked, swaybacked and eontert- ed in every conceivable way, but they still hold themselves erect with kind of melancholy dignity. They lave had careers varying from eight to twelve years, ard since their building Q score of changes have taken place fn car construction. Their capacity is often as low as 18,000 pounds, whereas the modern car is from 10000 to 6000g pounds capacity. The brake meehan= ism for the freight car has come to be as complicated as was that of tha passenger car thirty years ago, and inventions applying to doors, Yentfla- ton and running gear make the old time cars most pronounced "back num- bers. ? 4 contract between railroad and state calls for the demolition of these cars the eonyicts, the wood going to the penitentiary, where it will keep the states charges warm this winter. and the scrap iron returning to the railroad shops, whence it will issue In due time in the form of new railway material
 COUNT PEOPLE BY MACHINERY
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
Long Kouten nt Sca.

The longest steamer route given on the Photographic office map is that connecting New York and Esquimauit by way of Cape Eorn4 16,290 miles. This Is exceeded by the track used by sail ing vessels connecting New York and Yokohama, via the Cape of Good Hope This is 16900 miles in length.
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 Bears the 4 The Kind You Have Always BOught
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
sour atomaea. fnIIness after eatIng.

#Unr stomach, IuIIness aitereating. Hatuenes ae a3l= caused by imper feet digestion. Prtekly Ash Bitfers corrects he disorder at once. drives out badly digested food and tones the stomach, liver and bowels. For sale by Walker Drug Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21

Ii you can't work we'll in hot Wen ther, take Prieltly Ash Rittees, H regulates the important organs ef the body and fortified the system to resist the enerY4tinR tHuenca of sum mer heat. For sale by Walker Drug Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
4 area6 aIaTs51tar of FIenl5a

There are annually killed in Africa at least 65598a elephants, yielding quantity ef raw ivory, the selling price of which is S4,250,o00
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
COUNT PEOPLE BY MACHINERY
Facts About Each Person Wfu Be Fa9e.


 Iatad for tae Census by Electricity.
 Our first census, made in I795. showed the population of the United States to be 5.09o,000. and the count cost Uncle Sam, who was eamBaHa- lively poartzIez34 cent for each per- son. =it is= estimated 5hat 5be twelfth census. to be made in June. f999 N5ll show that people number 75s699.z 09e. and 17at taza item Of clerk hife in the census bureau alone will exceed &5.6ea868.. Clifford Howard. writing af HOW he Next. t.Gensua Will De Taken, 2 in the Ladies' Home Journal, says that although Che work of enumeration will be completed by the 1st of July it Ai51 probably be two or even three months later before the last ef tha schedules =a8e= received at the =eeaa.4s office; for not only must f.ay aII be first examined 6he super F5so9s. k3E in many cases they will probably ra= quire revision because ef some error or infoFMaijty The actual counting of the people will not be done until the schedules are turned into the een- sus office. The enumerators= simply gather the facts. and the office force in Washington does the counting and the compiling, which is done by electricity In loo days all the facts relating to 55,99h5 ee9 people VIII be tabulate0.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
Is the Quality, the Price and
 the Service Right?

Our prices are always the. low est. Ask any one who trades with us exelasively==and there are many suel1==and they will tell you we handle =tI4e= best goods made. The service is also as good =as conscientious and =eXpe- fienced help can make if.
 If you trade with us these three important questions will be established. Give Hs q trial.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
Oldest Book in the World.

Tardy Justice is at length to be done to another of the many martyrs Of science in the person of Prisse d'Aven- nes, the dfscoye.er of the famous max inns of Ptah Hotep, which has been claimed as the oldest book in the world. Prisse d'Avennes was a muni- ficent donor in his time to the muse ums of Paris. and most periodically refused all offers from other nations to work for them as an archaeologist when the trade of exploring was more highly paid and less crowded than it is today He died in poverty at the age of 72. and his grateful country has now named a street in Paris after him and proposes to place his bust in the Egyptian museum Of the Louvre.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17
D0NNELLY IS nIsREPRESHNTED.

A Renaissance of the late William S.
King in one of the daily papers, in
which the political integrity of Ignatius
Donnelly was covertly attacked, has
brought forth a reply from the Sage
of Nininger in which he says: There
are thousand witnesses to-day in your
city who know that your statement is
false. I never cringed before anything
mortal; I defed King and told him if
he had anything to say against me to
say it at once, and he subsidized"
AS one of the thousand witnesses"
present at the meeting referred to, we
desire to say that Mr.. Donnelly is cor
rect i'll his statement. Mr.. Donnelly
folded his arms, wore a seraphic smile,
and asked the audience to hear Col.
King. Mr.. Donnelly was taking a
retrospective glance at the history OF
Minnesota when he was interrupted.
He said that DR.. Stewart, OF St. Paul,
was the only Republican congressman
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

The British loyalists OF Minneapolis,
who recently Kissed the governor OF
Minnesota for pro-Boer sympathies,
have announced their intention OF wear
ing green ribbons to-day in honor of the
Irish soldiers in South Africa who have
fought SO bravcly and fell SO numerous
ly in an unjust and unlloly cause. The
same Britishcrs are opposed to the free
dom OF Ireland, the isle which produced
these brave men. The Irish boys who
return after the campaign, crippled and
shattered in health. will be rewarded by
England. not with pensions but with
cells in the poorhouses OF ireland, where
they will spend the remainder OF their
lives as paupers at the expense OF their
own country. The Irish who fight the
battles OF England deserve no better
late.
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

at the age of 70. Accepting this date
as true, he was Is years old when sent
by Pope Celestinc to convert the pagan
Celts OF Ireland, and his missionary life
among them was 50 years.
In modern times it has been stated
that st. Patrick was Protestant, and
that the early Irish church was not in
communion with the See OF Rome. The
tact is that the ancient Irish church
protested the same faith and had the
same sacrifice and sacraments as we
have to-day in all Catholic lands. There
is no valid foundation for the statement
that ireland possessed doctrine differ
cnt from that OF Rome. The letter OF
St. Patrick to Coroticus, British pirate
who carried into captivity some OF the
early Christians, is still In existence, and
IN 1t can be seen that the sacraments
were administered by St. Patrick and
his disciples in the orthodox manner OF
Rome.
For two centuries or more after the
death of St. Patrick students from every
country in Europe hocked to Ireland in
great numbers to study in its famous
schools, and Irish missionaries went to
the continent to preach the same gospel
taught them by St. Patrick's successors.
Some OF them went even to Rome itself.
There is no historical record that the
rope or any OF the ecclesiastical au-
thorities in the nations which they Wis
tied ever found fault with the preaching
OF the Irish missionaries on the ground
OF heterodoxy. All this talk about St.
Patrick being Protestant has no ioun-
dation whatever.
The children OF St. Patrick at the
present day are the most orthodox
Catholics in the world The Pope Of
Rome has no more devoted adhercnts
than they. What would Catholicity be
to-day if the Irish had abandoned the
faith for mess OF pottage, as the Eng
lish and others did at the time OF the
Reformation? Had the Irish deserted
the faith at the dictation OF royal ruff
fans, both male and female, or aposta-
tlzed to preserve their property from
contscation. they assuredly would be
better off in the worlds goods; but
they would have done so at the sacri-
flee OF principle and conscience, and the
See OF Rome would have suffered an in
calculablc loss in the power and pres
tlge it has exercised in the cause OF
humanity and civilization. The Irish
have reason to feel proud OF their fdel-
ity to the faith OF St. Patrick, and will
hold his holy name in everlasting re-
membrancc.
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

Queen Victoria is graciously pleased
to permit all her Irish mcrcenaries to
wear a sprig OF shamrock on St. Pat
rick's Day in recognition OF their brav-
cry in the Bocr war. Miss Anna Parnell,
the patriotic sister OF the late Irish
leader, considers it an insult to the
chosen leaf OF bard and chief to have
it be worn by Irisllmen as token of
degradation for doing the bloody work
OF the robber lords OF South Africa. 1t
is only two years ago when an Irish
sailor in the British, service was impris-
oncd for wearing shamrock in his cap
on Ircland's national festival Times
have changed and Victoria has changed
with them at the suggestion OF her war
ministers
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

surrection naturally followed. Then
scaffolds and convict ships succeeded
to pestilence and hecatombs OF coffin
less bodies. Still the queen remained
away from Ireland That year the
queen, as the life OF the Prince Consort
asserts, was again duly informed that in
Ireland "thc poverty is dreadful" Lord
Clarendon had written that he was
afraid "a great part of the population
must die OF absolute want" The queen
went her way to the continent and
thoroughly enjoyed herself. ireland
never knew her as friend through all
those frightiul years.
The executioner having put down the
revolt and the famines having been re-
duced in extent by compulsory expatri-
alton OF the people who survived and
could be driven out, the queen in 1S4o
paid. her first visit to Ireland. The car
petbag officeholdegs, the armed garri-
son, received her as might be expected
Many houses in Dublin, however, were
draped in mourning for her arrival. One
citizen who exhibited placards with the
words Famine" Plague" was jailed.
AT Cork it was proposed to give her a
luncheon. A city councillor of high
character agreed, but insisted that the
luncheon should be given in the poor
house that the queen might see to what
her government had reduced her people.
Queen Victoria goes to Ireland now
only because she is in dire need Of
political and military support in the in
famous war which her government is
carrying on against the white republics
OF South Africa. Ii the people Of Ire
land treat her with respect it will be
because they respect themselves.
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17
Britain in the government OF our for

Britain in the government OF our for
eign possessions? Is he not strangling
liberty in the Philippines in the same
manner as the British are in South
Africa? Has he not ignored the Mon
roe doctrine by reviving the deiunct
Clayton treaty out OF friendship
to England? Does he not prefer the
British gold standard to international or
American bimetallism? Is he not Sc
cretly allied with England in her pratt
cal policy? 1t, is no wonder then that
British organs OF rapacity ridicule the
American Constitution upon which he is
trampling and call the Declaration OF
Independence a tissue OF blatant plati-
tudcs' fit for Western cowboys?
The British people know that if Bryan
and his party carry the country this
year the American people will govern
themselves and their newly -acquircd
possessions without any dictation or
suggestions from Chamberlain and
Pauncefote. That is why the London
Post and its Tory contemporaries on
both sides OF the ocean are ridiculing
democracy and its best living represen-
tative, William Jennings Bryan, the next
president OF the free and independent
United States OF America, where "a
government OF the people, for the peo-
pie and by the people" shall be main
tanned in spite OF the royalty and aris-
tocracy OF the British empire.
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

This 18TH of March, the last OF the
century, will be celebrated with fcrvor
by the devoted children OF St. Patrick
in every land beneath the sun; and the
green flag, the symbol OF their nation
hood, will be uniurled proudly to the
breeze, for faith and fatherland are linked
inseparably in the hearts of the sea-
divided Gaels. They have chung to eacl,
with marvellous tenacity during CEN
turtles OF woe, and at terrible sacrifice
they have preserved them both from ex-
tinction. Their fidelity to the principle
OF creed and nationality will be reward
ed by Almighty God in the coming CEN
fury and Erin, as in ST. Patrick's time,
will again become great glorious and
free"
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

Henry Labouchere, the editor Of
London Truth, recently responded to
an invitation to attend dance, given
in aid of the Northampton Reservist
fund, by forwarding ten guineas and a
note, in which he said: II have always
thought it is somewhat grewsome for
fine ladies to get up balls in London to
help the wounded. They would do bet
ter to contribute what they can without
dancing over graves"
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

Says the Quebec Saturday Budget:
"Erin-go- Bragh" has the floor in South
Africa. Go over the list OF generals and
regiments in the Transvaal, who are
putting in their work where it does the
most good, and the boys who wear the
shamrock are in the front! Yet it is
scarcely more than couple of years
since an Irish jack tar in the British
navy was put under arrest and pun
ished by his superior officer for wearing
his national emblem on St. Patrick
Day. 1t is to be hoped that we have
seen the end OF this contemplate mar
row-mindedness and petty tyranny.
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

The American constitution, which is
not yet obsolete, declares that "all du-
ties, imposts and excuses shall be uni
form throughout the United States. +"
Why not then have free trade between
this country and Porto Rico? Because
Emperor Mckinley thinks the people OF
that island are wards" and not citizens,
and that they are, and must remain,
outside the pale of the constitution. He
wants the island governed after the
manner OF British crown colony.
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17
THE BRITONS AGAINST BRYAN.

Never in the history Of this republic.
since the pro-Britisl days OF John
Adams, has the national administration
at Washington been so satisfactory to
all loyal Englishmcn than during the
brief reign OF William OF Canton. So
pleased are they with Mckinley, Hay
and Choatc that they will do everything
that lies in their power to continue
them in office. Not only are these three
worthless eager and willing to grant
Great Britain anything they can, but
their appointces and understrappcrs at
home and abroad make it their con-
slant aim and purpose to offer incense
to their British brethren 1t is therefore
no wonder that the London press is ad-
vocating the reelection of William Nc
Kinlcy and is pouring out its venom on
the head OF William ]. Bryan, the idol
OF the plain people OF America The
impcrtinence OF the British, press in at
lacking the principles Of democracy is
truly amazing. Listen to the following
TRADE from the London Post, an organ
|of the Tory government:
The declaration OF independence is
not much appreciated at the end of the
nineteenth century, even in tic land OF
Jefferson. Its blatant platitudes seem
somewhat absurd in the more accurate
knowledge OF Our times, while literal
Interpretation of it is too ridiculous for
a Western cowboy. OF this sacred
document Colonel Bryan has undertake
en- the defense. 1t once was popular,
and under his protection will become
more popular yet All men are Gre
ated free and equal and in support OF
this proposition Mr.. Bryan frankly says
all governments are on their trial. Still,
he is angry when people suggest that
his speeches SAVIOR Of anarchy. No re-
sponsible French politician has ever in
dulged in language so suggestive to the
bandit passions Of lawless crowds as the
nominal leader OF the Democratic party,
the candidate for supreme Office in one
of the great nations OF the world"
The fact that Bryan and his adher-
ents stand upon the Declaration of In
dependence and the Constitution of the
United States makes them appear ride
ulous in the eyes Of the British imperial
lists. The blatant platitudes' OF Jeffer-
son in his immortal document, such as
all men are born equal" seem Some
what absurd" to the Britishers who be-
lieve in the divine right OF kings and in
hereditary legislators; and to then,
Bryan's speeches when based on the
Declaration OF Independence "savor Of
anarchy" and literal Interpretation OIL
! it lis too ridiculous for Western COW.
boy"
The same organ OF the British arts.
tocracy has fling at the American Con
stitution, and thinks amendments to il
should be made to suit the imperialistie
lpolicy OF the present administration
Who would have thought three shor
years ago that any British organ would
have the audacity OF meddling in tn,
political affairs OF this nation? Blu
times have changed since the induction
of William Mckinley into Office. Thu
Britishers are deeply interested in hi
reelection and Mark Hanna will no
appeal to them in vain for campaign
funds. Has he not said that the British
form OF government is equal to ours
if not superior to it? Does not McKin
ley favor the colonial policy Of Grea
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17
CAPTURE OF BLoEMFONrHIN. ) .a


the British have been gradually pushing
their way into the Orange Free State,
and last Wednesday, after stubborn re
sistance from the Beers, they captured
the capital of the republic and hosted
the Union Jack over its ramparts.
Bloemiontein was without permanent
Notifications on the west, from which
direction the British forces advanced,
and though defended with characteristic
gallantry by the patriots, they were
forced to retire and leave the city in the
hands Of the enemy. The city stands
upon high plane and is exposed on all
sides except to the east, where the prin-
cipal defense was an antiquated fort on
"a ridge four miles away, the projecties
from which could not reach the attack
ing army without going clear over the
town. On the west side the defenses
only consisted OF the trenches recently
constructed by the Beers. 1t was easy,
therefore, for an army of $4,000 to take
the city, but the British troops suffered
heavily, in the face Of Boer sharpshoot-
ers.
The keys OF the capital were surren-
dered to Lord Roberts by the officials
of the place after the withdrawal OF the
armed burghers from the neighbour
hood, and President Steyn and his army
of $4,000, with eighteen guns, marched
northward to encounter the British at a
later day. AS Bloemfontein is go miles
from Pretoria, the invading soldiers of
the Queen will have to fight again and
again before they reach johannesburg
and the capital of the Transvaal repub-
lie. II the former cannot be success
fully defended, it will assurcdly be de-
stroyed, with all its mining machinery,
and its destruction will entail heavy
loss upon the gold mine owners OF the
Rand, who are principally responsible
for the war. There are some fifty min
ing corporations controlled by London
inanciers, and these sharks and tax
dodgers will suffer in their pockets, if
nowhere else.
A dispatch from President Kruger to
the New York Journal says that his
people will only cease fighting with
death. He emphatically declares that
the British will never reach Pretoria"
If they do, it will be at sacrifice that
will stagger humanity and plunge the
British empire into mourning from
Australia to Canada.
The Beers are left to fight their own
battles unaided against Great Britain
and her colonies. The great powers of
the world look with indifference on the
unequal contest. What the outcome
will be, time alone will determine. The
Beers are self-reliant and believe with
the poet that "who would be free, them
selves must strike the blow" If they
are crushed out by brute force and de-
prived of independence, then they will
not be defeated. England is sowing
dragons teeth in South Africa, and will
find out in future years that the worst
thing that could have happened is the
unjust and iniquitous attack upon the
liberties of the Dutch farmers. God
help us" says Paul Kruger. "By the
help Of God and the bravery of her
majesty's soldiers" says Roberts, "the
troops under my command have taken
possession of Bloemfontein." We hope
that God is not with the heaviest bat
talions in this war against independ-
ence, and that victory shall perch on
Kruger's soldiers of liberty.
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

The Chicago Tribune, a Republican
paper Of great influence, calls upon the
administration to repeal some of the war
taxes. 1t says there is now an enormous
surplus in the treasury which Lyman J.
Gage is loaning to national banks with
out cent of interest to the govern
ment In lengthy editorial it says:
1T was promised when the war taxes
were imposed that all Of them should
be temporary. Yet all are being COL
lected now. Some of them, especially
those which are the most onerous and
vexatious, should be repealed now
Whenever man puts stamp on a
telegram he is irritated, for that stamp
reminds him that the war which occa-
stoned it ended over a year and half
ago. The stamp taxes on bank checks,
kilograms, bills of lading of railroads
and express companies, insurance poll
cies, leases, etc, are annoying and I'M
necessary and should be repealed. They
remain in force solely to create sur-
plus to be deyoured by subsidy sharks"
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

Imperialism has received the first set
back in the Porto Rican affair. The
Republican party is badly demoralised
and has halted in its mad career. Even
Cush Davis, the Minnesota lingo aad
advocate of triple alliance, predicts
disaster if tariff is imposed on the
exports OF the little island gobbled by
Mckinley in the name of freedom and
humanity.
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

The Chicago Times-Herald will not
be called McKinley's mouthpiece any
more. 1t has recently criticised his at
titude quite severely on the Porto Rican
question. Its proprietor, Mr.. Kohlsaat.
was one OF the men who helped Mac
out OF his financial difficulties when he
became bankrupt. ..
The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

The Dublin corporation will present
an address of welcome to the queen
The lickspittles and sycophants in the
council appear to be in the majority.
The spirit of nationality is very weak in
the Irish capital among the upper class
es, and it will not surprise us to 6nd
the address brimful OF loyalty to her
majesty