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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-19
ANNUAL MESSAGE
OF MAYOR ALEXANDER WAS
PRESENTED TO COUNCIL
MONDAY NIGHT.
FINANCE, PUBLIC WORKS,
Police and Fire Departments,
Water and Light, all
Reviewed.
FINANCE, PUBLIC WORKS,

Mayor Al exander presented and
read his annual message to the
council Monday night. It was as
follows:
Gentlemen of the City Council:
La making this my annual report,
allow me first to thank you for your
uniform courtesy aud kindness dur.
ing the past year. There has been
no friction whatever between you
and myself during that period.
also wish to congratulate you, and
the people generally, upon the
prosperity and steady growth of
our city. New buildings and sub
stantial enterprises of various kinds
are going up IN our MIDST, which
mark material advancement. And
am satisfied that the present
sus, when completed, will show
nearly if not quite 20. 900 popula-
ton, and that with fair conditions,
cur city will continue in growth
aud financial and commercial i'm
portance.
FINANCE.
BY referring to the annual state
ment of the city clerk you will see
that the general reeeipts@7exceed
somewhat those of the previous
year, especially so in the privilege
and police funds, the two finds that
this administration is directly re-
sponsible for. The only falling off
was in the tax from real and per
sonal property and the city scales.
These funds show jointly decrease
Of something over 81, 600, while our
expenditures have been greater
than for the year before. This
arises from the fact that our city is
growing and the ordinary expenses
of conducting lis affairs are neces.
sarily greater, and, added 10 this
fact, it should be remembered that
we have paid off an old claim of
about 81, 900 against the city,
PUBLIC WORKS
In regard to public works [ may
be allowed to say that upon my in.
auguraton found great many OF
the bridges and drains in very bad
condition, necessitating both re-
building and expensive repairing.
We have graded over %, 900 feet of
streets, put down 1,109 stepping
blocks, built new bridge across
lake drain on Olive street, while the
bridges on same drain at Cherry
aud Linden streets and over
Brump's bayou at Barraque street,
have all been removed and replaced
with good and substan tial culverts,
and this at less expense than would
have been Incurred for rebuilding
same. Inc IOtlUWlu VI iASCos w
wit, on Walnut street, between
Second and Third avenues, and at
Second avenue and Olive street,
and on Barraque street, between
Olive and Laurel streets, have been
removed aud replaced with sewer
pipe. The removal of the last three
bridges was made possible by the
Laurel street sewer. which conducts
very large volume of water into
the Arkansas river. We have
bought aid put down 1850 feet OF
sewer pipe and bought 81. 069 feet
of lumber at cost of $708.2 20. The
total cost OF street improvement
for the twelve months, including
lumber, sewer pipe, labor, horse
feed and other Incidental expenses
amounts to 1892 G..
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-19
WATER AND LIGHT.

This question bias been more per-
picking than any other with which
we have been called upon to deal for
the past ten years or more; and it
would seem that we are little, If any
nearer solution of the trouble. We
have neither the quality nor quanti-
ty of water vouchsafed IN the orig
inal contract. And can only IN
woke your best endeavors and CO.
operation in this behalf for the tu-
ture, as you have extended them IN
the past.
HEALIH DEPARTMENT.
The good health of our city is a
matter for congratuIation; the ply
sicians report the health of our city
unusually good. True, some few
cases of smallpox have occurred in
our midst, but almost without ex-
ception of a very mid form-there
have been in all about At cases; and
so far as | am informed, not single
death. Under the quarantine4estab-
lished by the board of health, the
contagion has been very nearly
stamped out, and | hope soon to see
the city entirely rid of It.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
wish to call your attention to
the urgent need of a city bail, the
old one being disgrace to any city
of the size and importance of Pine
Bluff. We now have in course of
construction city prison, wh CHI,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-19

Mayor Al exander presente and
read his annual message to the
council Monday night. It was as
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-19

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ready AtaAH times a horse and BIZ
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-19

NoTE.-There are many mixtures, made in
imitation of baking powder, which it IL
than pure powders, but they are made
from altsn. Alum in food is poisonous,
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28

teens, but his face, in its ashy gray
ness, looked more like that of man
who had passed his prime.
"Feelin' a bit better now?" began
the sergeant.
Hell run for it as soon as he's
able" remarked another. ''Whew! lis
ten!" he broke off, as a shell exploded
just outside. "They seem to have got
the range of us now. Nice Christians
these. firing on the Red Cross"
For a few seconds there was silence
as the men realized their danger. The
angry growl of the quick-frers was
every now and then punctuated by
the long, deep-mouthed baying of the
larger guns.
They are aiming at usi" shouted a
man, running into the tent with his
right arm hanging helplessly by his
side.
Immediately there was a violent
concussion; the air was filled with
dust, smoke and a pungeant smell,
and the end of the tent lit up with a
tongue of flame. In an instant three
or four men sprang forward, and the
fire was eXtinguished.
''The devils are firing at u.s." cried
the sergeant. "The next shot will
count a bit if am not mistaken"
Scarcely were the words out of his
mouth when huge rent suddenly
opened in the canvas, and a shell
dropped right into the middle of the
tent. The wounded ducked under
their covering as if they would bury
themselves beneath the ground. The
doctor, with another, rushed forward;
but Private Cory was before them.
''Not you, doctor!" he shouted, as
he seized the bomb.
Quick, my man! Into the bucket
with it," said the doctor. mo!
There's no water! My God"
But Cory had dashed through the
opening and was running like hare.
They were all dumfounded for a mo-
ment. Then a cheer broke from them
when they realized what he was doing
"a cheer in which dying men Joined.
''Throw it away! Now Throw It'll"
yelled the doctor after him.
Still he ran. The music of what he
knew was their applause rang in his
ears. Nothing had ever sounded so
sweet to him as this. He smiled 1t
reminded him family of his achieve
ments in the football field, when the
crowd roared their applause. The ball
he carried was heavier, but the ap-
plause-only he knew what it meant
to him, and he clutched the destruc-
tive missile like a child hugging doll.
He felt inclined to kiss it. If he lived
he would be a man and a comrade
again. If not-but he ran on.
Someone has wisely said it requires
often but the turn of straw to make
a coward hero, or hero a coward.
Cory was now a man again. The
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
Mckinley to Blame.

Mr.. Mckinley has brought the Unit
ed States nearer to "an entangling al
lance" by his oriental policy than was
ever the case before in Americas his
tory. Mr.. Olney is a keen observer,
and we have his word for it that:
Except for Great Britain's counte-
ance, we should almost certainly
never have got the Philippines-ex-
cept for her continued support, our
hold upon them would be likely to
prove precarious, perhaps altogether
unstable 1t follows that we now find
ourselves actually caught in an en-
tangling alliance, forced there not by
any treaty or compact of any sort,
formal or informal but by the stress
of the inexorable facts of the situa-
ton" Mr.. Olney speaks the truth,
whatever may be said by Mr.. Hay to
the contrary. Such situation cannot
exist without bringing the question of
Britain into our presidential politics.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
A PATHETIC INCIDENT.

Gentle and brave amid the ranks he rode.
And felt the steed beneath him proud
and true:
Gentle and brave the steed beneath him
strode,
And felt MY masters hand will guide
me through
And hour on hour, through dying and
through dead.
And lashed by rain from heaven, and
hail from hell,
from morn to eve, unscathed alike, they
sped,
But at the close of day the charger fell.
lie saw the shattered limb. the heaving
breast,
And eyes entreating aid he could not
lend
With kiss on kiss the velvet nozzle
pressed.
And longed, yet loathed, it's agony to
end.
And needless for awhile how trumpet
blared.
Or round him roared and flashed the
fiery zone,
lie, who all day the battles worst had
dared,
Now dared not brave the bivouac alone
Then in one sob a fond farewell he spoke
T. loaded death with hand reluctant
drew.
o dear dumb friends patient of our
yokel
There's many a heart, we know not
aches for you
James Rhoades. in London Daily News.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
IESS' COTTAGE IN THRUMS.
If Barric's Famous window Ever
Existed 1t Has Been
Closed Up.

"In the gable end of a tiny cottage
was a wee bit of a window-small even
for Thrums, where they have the very
smallest windows | have ever seen,"
writes Mary Il. Mullett, of "The Real
Thrums of Barrie" in the Ladies'
Home Journal. Jess cottage is one
of the few whitewashed ones in the
village. Most of them are of warm,
pinkish-red stone 1t is quaint little
place, neatly kept now, though it was
once so out of repair that it was al
most uninhabitable. But for the un-
expected fame which came to it it
would undoubtedly have been allowed
to go utterly to ruin. 'Ay, it was in an
awfu' state said the. neighbcr with
whom l gossiped over the stone WALL
but it was sold to anither mon. Mais-
ter Barrie's father was fearin' they
would be tearin' it down, an some
fowk thoct that Master Barrie would
buy it himself. But he's no muckle
for such things. The window oop
there's no the oree9inal window. Ma,
ma! That's the attic window whaur
Leeby gaed to see if the smoke wair
comm oot O the meenister's chimney.
If there was ony window below, as
Master Barrie says there was, it's no
there moo; but the mon as haze bocht It
was sayin' he thoct he'd put ane in
oUain
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
TOO STRONG TO WORK.
She Had Her Specially and Could MOI
Be Induced to Depart
from 1t.

A few days ago well-known Washington
lady, being Unexpectedly berett OF her
kitchen assistance, advertised for colored
woman capable of performing general house
work, says The Star.
The first caller in response to the adyer,
tisement was mulatto damsel, bedecked1
with ribbon and fnery. From her airs and
graces she might have been a graduate OF
seminary. She announced that she had no
ticed the advertisement and was deslrous
of securing employment.
."Are you good cook?" inquired the lady
of the house.
mo, indeed, don't cook" was the reply.
care you a good washer and roner" was
the next query.
81 wouldn't do washing and ironing; it's
too hard on the hands, declared the caller
Can you sweep" the housewife then
wanted to know.
"No," was the answer, and it was pos.
tive one. I'm not strong enough for that"
"Well, in the name of goodness, what can
you do?" said the lady of the house, exas-
perated. The placid reply was
81 dusts"
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28

fore the subsidy is unnecessary. Only
about five per cent. of the total tom
mage of the world is not subsidized,
and it is a hopeless task to lower
freight rates by such a subsidy bill
as is proposed when nine-tenths of
that subsidy will go to passenger and
mail steamers. The unfortunate his
tory of American ship subsidies is
quoted to show the fallacy of the
scheme and attention is called to
the fact that no assistance whatever
would be given to the navy by these
subsidized vessels except on exactly
the same terms that they can be
bought now, by paying the ship own
ers exactly what they demand for the
ships, far in excess of their actual
worth.
AnOT DIJ D
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
ADOLPH PATTERSON.
A BRIGHT RAY OF HOPE.
The Cause of the People Has q
Chance Against That of
Special Class.

1t is declared by Mr.. Bryan that the
senate of the United States is not def
initely lost to the people, and that if
he should be elected in November with
the almost certain democratic gains,
the free silver force in the senate
would certainly be considerable and
in the end decisive. The st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, rabid gold standard
organ, comedies this much, and that
Mr.. Bryans election will be a serious
breach in the gold standard intrench-
ments and would give prestige to
further efforts to break them down
completely. The majority against sill
yer in the existing senate is not over
seven. Of the 30 senator's whose
terms expire March 3 next, II are re-
publicans, including one each from
Kansas, Montana, West Virginia, Ore
gon, Idaho, Nebraska, Wyoming and
Colorado. Two gold democrats go out
at the same time. The democrats are
likely to fill two of the three vacancies,
those in Delaware and Utah, and Bry-
ans election will bring in democratic
vice president, who would vote in case
of tie Thus far the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Still further extending the idea, the
people of the western states have
reached the conclusion that they are
misrepresented in the senate. Colora-
do, Wyoming, Kansas, Montana, Ida
no and Nebraska are represented by
six senator's, who were elected on the
pretense of being bimetallists and who
voted for the single gold standard, the
placing of paper money in the hands
of the banks and the creation of a
bank trust controlling all the business
of the country. There is no question
that the people of each and every one
of these six states are absolutely op-
posed to the things for which their
six senator's voted, and the evidence is
accumulating that they are taking ex-
ceedingly great care not to permit any
of the six to further misrepresent them
after next March. The change of these
six states alone will cut the gold ma
jority in the senate in two, without
taking into account gains that may be
made in other parts of the country.
Kentucky has already elected a silver
man to succeed Lindsay. In Louis
lana Caffrey has been defeated over
whelmingly in the primaries by sill
yer man. The review of the whole
situation will therefore appear to be
one of great hope to the democracy
and to the cause of the people, and
that the election of Mr.. Bryan will
not be, as has been so often alleged, a
useless expenditure of votes and the
placing of helpless incumbent in the
presidential chair. Success, however,
can only be attained by constant eff
forts to abide by unity of purpose.
There never has been time in the
history of the country when the lines
have been so clearly defined between
the cause of the people and that of
special class.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
Hanna's Organization.

He believes that organization is the
chief glory of man. He elected Nc
Kinley by organization. He organ
lied his administration. He has or
ganized the republican party of con-
gress so that it no longer seems to
have a conscience. He is. organizing
the republican national convention so
that it will have no more mind than
a fog-horn. He will organize the sue
ceeding campaign so that it will have
about as much nobility as a pirates
flag He will, if he can have his way,
change the whole spirit of our institu-
tions into a syndicated imperialism,
which is the most simple and efficient
type of political power known to his
kind.-Boston Qnd) Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28

paralysis of panic that had seized him
a few hours ago and had frozen his
heart existed now only as a hideous
dream. Another ten yards-he was
quite so from the tent. He heard
them urging him to throw it. A few
more yards, then with tremendous
effort he hurled it from him. Instant
ly there was an explosion, and Cory
fell on his face.
Poor chap! He is done for,
doubt" said the doctor, as several
raced forward, followed by number
of wounded, who limped in pain.
They knelt by his poor shattered
body. The sergeant, his old tor
mentor, regardless of his own wounds,
had been among the first who rushed
to his assistance.
Cory raised the only hand left him,
which the n c. o. clasped, murmur-
ing something about forgiveness. A
smile of eXultation played about his
comrades face for a moment, then
the film of death gathered over his
eyes. He tried to speak. but no words
came in obedience to the moving of
his lips. for his soul had taken it's
flight to that land where brave spirits
are at rest.-Mainly About People.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
LOOTING IMPERIALISM.
Republican MercenaFies Waxing Fat
at the Cost of the
People.

The Cuban postal revenue steal seems
to have thrown the Washington au-
thorities into a semipanic. AS the in
vestigation progresses the evidence in
creases that the Cuban administrati tion
has thus far sheltered a gang of or
ganiZed looters of uneXampled audac-
ity.
The old ''carpet-bagging" of recon
struction days has been revived in
Cuba, with equally scandalous results.
Explanation for the alarm at Wash
ington is to be found in the fact that
similar organized looting parties may
have been turned loose in the new i'm
perial colonies of Porto Rico and the
Philippines If so, it is only a question
of time when they, too, will be caught
red-handed.
If the imperial policy were not al
ready condemned in the minds of pa
triotic Americans this last straw would
furnish the condemnation.
The Mckinley administration seems
to have justified nearly everything
that the Spaniards charged against us
in advance. The Spaniards told the
Cubans when American Intervention
was being sought that the latter sim
ply meant an invasion by organized
thieves who would make away with
everything on the island that could be
stolen.
The dons were hyperbolic in express
sion, but present events lend accuracy
to their prophetic insight. The Nc
Kinley administration is now giving
the Cubans an object lesson in the
worst and most scandalous features
of American political jobbery. As a
self-exploited. harbinger of better
civilization it is discredited and scan
dalized by the constituencies thieves
it has appointed to handle the Cuban
revenues.
Of course, the situation has ray OF
hope to the hungry crowd that is feed
ing at the imperialistic crib. 1t pres
ages the appointment of more commits
sions to investigate the stealings of
the earlier commissions named by
President Mckinley.
The Cuban postal revenue scandal
has developed the fact that certain fed
eral appointees took office on that is-
land with deliberate intend to plunder
and rob- How many other similar
crimes are yet to be uncovered before
the imperialistic craze has run its
course? Chicago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

"A recent dispatch said that
Hanna had taken severe cold. And
Mckinley sneezed.-Chicago Chron-
icle.
AT the close of the Bryan cam
Palgn, shouts republican, 1.-The gold
in the treasury was only $4,000, 900;
now it is 1926, 100000 And every dol
lar was taken out of taxpayers pocl1-
ets-half of them democratic taXpay-
ers.-Chicago Chronicle.
Senator Hanna urges the repub-
hcans to make the same kind of fight
they did in 1885, 1t is pretty well
understood that they made bloody
fight in that year and poured out
barrels of money in several of the
states. And they will probably re-
peat the performance in the coming
campaign.-Savannah (Ga.) News.
Ten thousand dollars apiece for
commissioners who failed entirely in
constructive effort, with secretary at
$12,220: transportation, $9,252; house
hold expenses in Manila, So, ,252; clerical
services, $31, ,701; per diem allowance in
this country, $5,285; miscellaneous"
S14,99S. No wonder the holding on to
the Philippines is intensely popular
with some people.-Detroit Free Press.
I'VE are told that the slogan Of the
campaign will be Mckinley and pros
perity.' But no laboring man would
strike if he were prospering. The
strike is protest against the prevail
ing condition of labor, and not an in
dication of prosperity. If the large
capitalistic- corporations are prosper
ous-and it may be admitted that they
Rre-it is only because the wage-earn-
er is not receiving his due share of the
profits derived from industrial invest
lnentE.-Dubuque Herald
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with Local Applications, as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is
blood or constitutional disease, and IN order
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not quack
medicine 1t was prescribed by one of the
best physicians in this country for years,
and is a regular prescription. 1t is composed
of the best tonics known, combined with
the best blood purifiers, acting directly on
the mucous surfaces. The perfect com.
bination of the two ingredients is what pro-
duces such wonderful results in curing Ca
tarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, 0.
Sold by all druggists, price 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
The RusY Boss.

Mark Hanna. in speech at Colum-
bus the other day, announced that he
was going to withdraw from the Ohio
delegation in favor Of Gen. Grosvenor,
at the same time saying: 81 will have
enough to keep me busy without being
connected with the Ohio delegation"
This is strictly true, for there will be
moro states than Ohio to work the
barrel in this campaign.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
Histrionic Improbability.

It was during the performance of "Quo
Vadis" at Eureka, and Vinicius was begging
Petronius to forget his reproaches, saying,
tearfully:
"Ah, how can you ever forgive me?"
"Vlnlclus, replied Petronlus, with great
child"
Whereupon the audience, which was not
dead, but only bored, burst into huge laugh
ter.-Kansas City journal.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
Curiosity SnYcs Life.

A package marked quinine was secretly
sent to bright woman, but being curious
she took it to druggist who said it was not
quinine, but arsenic. A like inquiry into
some of the medicines offered will certainly
detect the false from the true. For half a
been curing indigestion, constipation, dys-
pepsia, liver and kidney troubles and has
never once failed. Try it if you feel weak
and tired,
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
Sole Custodian of Prosperity.

1t is safe to say that the Mckinley
administration and the trusts are the
guardians and custodians Of prosper
ity. There is no controversy about
that, the grievance being that they
guard it so carefully that none of it
ever gets beyond their control.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
Four in Three ThouSona

-Four persons out Of every 5000 men,
women and children in the United
States are either in Jail, or out on bail,
or are fugitives from justice. Their
total number is 10000, out Of a pupula-
tion estimated at 7O,OC0,OOO. Only six
per cent. of all those who have fallen
fouA of the law are women,
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28

The businesslike manner in
which Boss Hanna is beginning to fry
the fat out of the trusts and tariff
barons indicates that he is not going
to rely entirely on destiny for reflect
ing William Mckinley to the presi-
City Times.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28

There was Michigan girl Who, while hyp-
Noticed, borrowed 5000. If she will kindly
send the name of the hypnotic school that
turned the trick she will confer favor on
Anxious Observation-Disclosures News.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28

If the wishes of business men
are consulted, neither the secretary of
war nor any other member of his cab
met will do anything to draw the
United States into further embarrass-
ing complications with European coun-
tries. "War talk" does not sound near
" so attractive as it did two years
ago. 1t is impossible to get up any pop
uIar enthusiasm in the Philippines. The
cost of war is coming out of the profits
of American industries and has forced
prices up to so high a point that con-
sumers are beginning to grumble.- :
Boston Advertiser.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-28
A Different Declaration.

"She is very proud of the fact that she
has an ancestor who was one of the signers
Of the Declaration of independence"
That's nothing to be proud of. Theresa
divorce in our family, too. o."-Philadelphia
Bulletin.