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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08
INDIAN mAolclANs NOT CLEVER
Their Tricks Are Old and Surpassed by
 Many Europeans.

Their Tricks Are Old and Surpassed by
 Many Europeans.
 From Harper's Magazine: The In, dian conjurers are not very clever. They offer no new tricks and no won dcrful ones. Their counterparts In China are many times more delft, au- daaious and original. The tricks Of causing a mango tree to grow in the presence of crowd is the most vaunt- ed thing the Indians do, and that l failed to see, though it is practiced by many of these vagabonds. Several per- sons who have witnessed it told us that it is worked beneath a cloth Or sack and that it seems as if it might easily be done by drawing a small young plant from the performers s clothing and setting it up in the dirt under the covering. The so-called tree is usually but few inches-at the most foot-in height However. against the reports of such skepties 7.e must weigh the testimony of many famous travellers. Nearly all the coniurers we saw were also snake fharmers. Their work with serpents is extremely interesting, even after one learns how harmless are their snakes. The reptiles are carried in baskets and bags and are of all sizes. The cobIas are best worth watching. Usually mongoose is put out to fight 9 cobra, but the ferretlike animal is not only spiritless, but remains so. l never saw or heard of anything come from such combat except once, at Delhi, when the eoEjurer was not look ing and large serpent killed and hall swallowed the mongoose. And the most interesting thing about that was the noise of the owners Iamentation
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08

It was expected that congress would adjourn yesterday, but at l0;40 D. m. it became apparent that no agreement would by reached on the several items in dispute between the two houses and adjournment was taken until today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08

No man can work we'll with torpid liver or constipated bowels. A few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters will quickly remove this condition and make work a pleasure. Sold by Walker Drug Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08

Nothing equal to Prickly Ash Bit ters for removing that sluggish bil. ious feeling. so common in hot wea- ther. It creates strength, yigor, ap. petite and cheerful spirits. Sold by Walker Drug Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08
Lighting the Red Sea

The lighting of the Red sea seems at first to be too practical infringement upon an ancient fairyland. But Sir Thomas Sutherland and other members of permanent interested in shipping are naturally anxious about the prog ress of the lighthouses with which the porte promised to bejeWel the southern waters Of the red sea
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08
c A 5 T o Ta T A. Bears the 4 The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature ss NXZ1Z@

An acrimonious debate took place in the senate on the armor plate question. The Republicans favored leaving the whole question to the secretary of the navy. The Demo- crats favored government factory in preference to yielding to the ar nor plate combine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08

For driving out dull bilious feeling, strengthening the appetite and in- ereasing the capacisy of the body for work, Prickly Ash Bitters Is a gol- den remedy, Sold by Walker Drug Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08

Lord RobsIts reports that the occupation 0f Pretoria was peace fully accomplished. The Boers re- treated toward the Lyndenburg fastnesses with their arms, ammu- milton and provisions.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08

The Chinese crisis Is grave. Japan has protested against the landing of Russian troops on Chinese soil and is mobilzing a large fleet.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08

A thirteen days battle has been fought between the government forces and the Colombian rebels, re. suIting in a victory for tbe latter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08

IL Is formally announced that a bid has been made fer the first mortgage bonds of the Clover Leaf road.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08
GA g T o z r A. Bs.rs the / The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature ef &>HAz1z9

Admiral Kempff, commanding the American fleet on the Chinese sta tion, has cabled for re-enforcements of marines to protsct American in terests at Tien-Tsin and Pekin.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08

4 large number of International and Great Northern conductors have been let out.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08
TEIEGRAPHlc BRIEFS.

The president went to the capitol yesterday and, in the presidents room in the senate, signed the bills as fast as they were completed by the two houses of congress.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08

THE BEST should be your aim
 e when buying medicine. Get Hoods Sarsaparilla and have the best medicine MONEY GAN BUY.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-06-08

he joint passenger committee is in session in New York City, and has many important subjects to pass upon.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26
EvERYLAsTINGLY WRONG.

During the campaign Of 1896 Bryan
foretold the most horrible calamities.
the most frightful disasters, the most
excruciating torrents, the widespread
and awful ruin, want and misery that
would afflict this people If Mr.. Nc
Kinley was elected president and the
gold standard adopted.
lie is at the same old game now.
Less than four years have demon
strated that MIR. Bryan is false
prophet-not q single one of his direful
predictions having come to pass, and
in almost every instance exactly the
opposite proving true.
He was wrong in '96; he is wrong
now. He is everlastingly wrong on
every issue in which the welfare OF
the American people is involved.
And Wellington r. Burt, the Bryanite
nominee for congress in the Eighth
district, end orses Bryan, whom he re-
fers to in his speeches as that noble
man Bryan" Do the voters of the
Eighth district want to be represented
il: congress by man who would vote
for 16 to 1 free silver and for a cow
artlly surrender of the responsibilities
and obligations imposed upon the
United states by the Paris treaty?
We do not believe it.
Burt as well as Bryan is everlastingiy
Wong,
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26
BURT ON TRUSTS.

AS the sturdy opponent of combined
capital and corporate greed, the Bry-
ante candidate for congress, in the
Eighth district is giving the
people he seeks to represent some in
teresting talks on trusts. Mr.. Bryan is
talking on this and oGher SUBJECTS, but
the people of the Eighth would like TO
hear directly from their would-he repre-
sentative, his personal views in the
matter. 1t should be easy for him to
show that the Democratic Senator
Jones' connection with the cylindrical
cotton bale trust is purely in the pub
lie interest, and quite a different thing
from the monopolstic greed OF Repub-
Leans mixed up in similar combinations.
To a clear-headed man of business
sucb as Mr.. Burt uDquestionaDiy is,
there should be no difficulty in pointing
out the pure philanthropy OF the ram
MANY Ice trust. He might argue along
the lines that it was formed to Keep
the poor people Of New York from ac-
ouirnp luxurious habits which lead 10
gout and other deadly evils. That II
they are permitted TO buy ice In the
heat of summer, at reasonable price,
thew NAV forget the blessings or pow
ertv. That it was necessary to award
large blocks of stock in the ice trust to
Mayor Van Wyck, Richard Croker, ana
other Tammany braves, to reimburse
them for their personal trouble In US
ing the machine to secure the eXclu-
sive use and monopoly OF the docks and
other privileges of Greater New York
for the trust. That Richard Croker,
the benevolent and patriotic friend or
Mr.. Bryan, cannot be expected TO drain
the saloons, pool rooms, gambling he!ls,
dives and other resorts of vice, OF their
revenues, for the purpose of swelling
the Bryanite campaign fund, unless
some privileges are accorded him, ana
some exception made in his favor. He
is the friend of the righteous Bryan,
and therefore he can do no harm, and
any trust with which he is connected
is sanctified by association.
That Uncle Adlai, Bryan's running
mate, is constituted q benevolent and
public-spirited citizen by his stock
holdings in the Illinois and Indiana coal
mining syndicate, should be as easy
of demonstration TO Mr.. Burt as is the
mons asinorum. And he will have no
difficulty at all in proving that the
Rockefeller steel and iron trust is JUS
titled by the mere fact that Wellington
r. Burt derives such a satisfactory in
come from II. In fact, he would be JUS
titled in asking why he was made
candidate, unless it was for the bene'
fit accruing to the cause from the
monev honestly made by his connec-
zion with combined capital, which is
only a menace to the constitution and
dosfructiye of the declaration OF inde-
nendence when in the hands of Rcpub-
leans.
Certainly, there is a promising field
for Mr.. Burt i'm exploiting the trusts.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26

States. 1t is not simple delivery OF
mail, but an extension OF all the posta'
facilities enjoyed bI city people To
the farmcrs-the collection of mail.
the sale of stamps, the registration of
letters and the furnishing OF postal
orders. The rural carrier is n moving
postoffice brought TO the gate OF
million and half of farm households
who formerly we're required to travel
an average Of two miles each way, or
four miles for the round trips to get
their mail, post their letters, buy n
postage stamp or u postal order or
register a letter. TIE postoffice depart
ment is locating new routes as rapidly
as possible, 776 having been estab-
lished since the first CT July, and Mr..
Maehen, the superintendent, expects
TO have 4 300 in operation before the
3Oth of June heNt'
IL is true the Mckinley administration
neglected TO ask ''the consent OF the
governed i'm establishing this import
ant and useful service, but they seem
to have taken 10 it kindly, and 1t will
take it's place among the substantial
benefits wrought out by the present
progressive government.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26
BRIT ON IMPERIALISM.

wellington X. Burt, in his OWoSSO
speech, oct. ,, said: LIT was policy
that was cnstamped upon the mem
ory of every man in the country,
that we wanted no colonies, we
wanted no foreign lands. Is there
man here but what has been taught
that from his boyhood days? IL is
one OF the things We never Thought
could occur"
Mr.. Burt is strangely misinformed
as to past history. Every Democratic
platform prior to the civil war de-
clared in favor of the acquisition or
Cuba, and the Democratic party was
fully committed 10 that policy.
Mr.. Burt says: ave wanted no for
eigu lands"
Mr.. Burt has changed his mind in
this particular within comparatively
recent period. On Feb. q, 1898, IN
the Michigan state senate, Senator
wellington X. Burt offered the follow
ing resolution.
Whereas, The Hawaiian monarchy
has lately been abrogated, ana the
provisional government now eXlstlns
i'm lieu thereof, has sent commissioners
to Washington, to communicate WIN
our government, with a view OF having
the Hawaiian islands annexed to the
United States in territorial form Of
government, and,
Whereas, about three-fourths OF the
property on said islands belongs to Cit
liens of the United States, and consid-
ering the important position occupied
by these islands, the need OF the ma
tiyes of such islands for Republican
form OF government, and the necessity
and great Importance to the United
States, of controlling this great cross
roads of the Pacific"
Resolved, by the senate, the mousse
concurring), that our senator's ana
representatives In congress be and are
hereby requested to use all honora-
ble means TO cause the United States
government to accept the overtures
of the Hawaiian islands to the United
states, as one of the territories there
Of, if in their judgment it is best 10
do SO.
Resolved, that a copy of the above
resolutions be sent to each or the
Michigan senators and representatives
at Washington.
The resolution was adopted.
This does not bear out Mr.. Burts
contention at Owosso Oct. 3, that I'VE
wanted no foreign lands"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26

The North American Chemical Co.,
which came to Bay City and is invest
ing S1,5OO,0O0 in manufacturing
enterprise, is a branch of the United
Alkali Trust, of Great Britain,
an aggregation which controls 20
large establishm ents in that country
and is capitalized at $+2,O00,O0O. The
location OF the North American Chemi-
cal o.'s plant at Bay City and the en-
ployment of several hundred men is
the sole and direct result of the Ding
ley tariff. stand up Wellington X.
Burt. w ould you, If elected to congress,
vote to smash such institutions as the
North American Chemical Co.? The
Saginaw organ of your party says
you are in accord with Bryan's policy
to "smash the trusts"
w ould you vote to smash the
Rockefeller trust which Is paying
you q minimum of $4,000 annually?
Would you vote to smash the Bell
teleph one octopus, which you have
defended in this city?
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26
NiIIITARISNI.

Referring to Mr. Bryan's recent
and demagogic utteranccs on the Amer
lean standing army, the Chicago Rec
ord says:
The man who sows discord among
the people for his political profit, who
arOuses class hatred in land where
there should be no classes, in order
that he may get an office, Is unmis.
takably working his own undoing. Mr..
BryaD's cause cannot prosper from the
moment that he begins to cry out that
Americans are seeking to infringe on
the liberties Of Americans. The free
man who is enlightened as well as
free knows where he can find arms.
He welcomes the struggle with tyrants,
if tyrants there be. He knows when
his inalienable rights are infringed
upon without having to consult experts
on the subject.
When Mr.. Bryan talks Of the menace
of an army of 100000 men to q nation
of 7b,O00,OOO people, is he a states
man, a mischief-maker, or a fool?
AIR. Bryan has a solid month OF cam.
paigning before him, leading up to cleo
zion day. He should bear carefully in
mind during that critical pcrod that
the people of the United States will
not begin the new century by electing
him president to save them from be-
coming helots. They are strong and
free. They do not want Mr.. Bryan's
pity. They are not looking for good
Samaritan TO heal their wounds, but
for a statesman to direct their large
purpose and WELD with courage, JUS
tce and wisdom their irresistible
power.
w. r. Burt, the Bryan nominee for
congress, is shouting Imperial
ism" and ''militarism" through the
Eighth district just as emphatically
and just as foolishly as Mr.. Bryan.
Both are wrong in their conclusions,
and mischief makers. And both will
he thrown down good and cold by the
common sense of the voters. on Nov.
6. Mark the prediction.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES,


From a purely personal standpoint
the voters of the Eighth congressional
district can make no mistake in their
election of q representative. Both are
good citizens, of excellent personal
character, and capable business men.
But the voters in exercising their
privilege Of the ballot, must be guided
by other considerations than the mere
~ personal.
Joseph w. Fordney, the Republican
nominee, stands for the Mckinley adj
Ininistration, and all that it means to
a prosperous, contentcd, and progress
sive people. He stands for policy Of
expansion and patriotism at home and
abroad; for protection TO our labor en-
ploying manufactures and Industries;
ana for the maintenance of that proud
position Of honor enjoyed by the Ameri
can flag among the nations of the
earth.
Wellington r. Burt is now, and has
been, as uncompromising an advocate
of free silver as Bryan himself, and
seeks admission to congress that hf
may help the cratic man from Ne
braska destroy sound money, which
involves the credit of the nation at
home and abroad.
wellington X. Burt poses as an op-
ponent OF the trusts and monicd mono
poles, while himself closely allied with
and an officer of the railway combna-
ton, one Of the most powerful, exact
ing and closest combinations Of capital
i'm the world. He derives direct rev.
enue, and is therefore interested in the
Rockefeller syndicate. He showed his
sincerity as to trusts, and indicated
what he may he relied upon TO do, by
his taking ND the cause of the Bell Tele-
phone Co., as against the Valley Co., an
INDEPENDENT organization of local
capital. He was quite within his rights
I'm so doing, and The Courier-Herald
refers to the matter, not with any
intention Of discussing the merits of
the two companies, but simply TO
show that where Mr.. Burt's personal
interests are concerned, and they are
many and involved, his siding with
corporations and combines of capital
arc natural and to be expected.
wellington X. Burt stands with Bryan
in his unpatriotic policy Of hauling
down i'm dishonor the American flag
that was raised i'm honor in the Philip
pines. and against the policy of the
administration, in holding for the
American people those advantages of
territory and of trade that have been
honestly gained.
wellington X. Burt finally stands
for Organism and all that is implied
thereby, and whom this is said enough
is said why the people of the Eighth
congressional district should see TO il
that his personal wish, not to be O.
candidate, which was ignored by the
Bryamte convention, Is respected by
the process of leaving him at hss-Ae.--
Saginaw Courier-Hcrald.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26
RURAL FREE DELIVERY SER
VICE


1t has been we'll observed that the
Republican party is the party of con-
struction, and the Democrats the party
of obstruction and destruction. In no
one particular has the present admin
istration been of more valuable service
TO the country than in it's policy in
respect TO the rural free-delivery of
mails, for which congress appropriated
81, 900 for the current fiscal year.
So successful has the service become,
and so popular with the farmers, that
The appropriation is not nearly Suf-
ficient to meet the demands. Pending
the voting of an additional appropria-
tion by congress the rule of first come
first served has been adopted at Wash
lngtion, and those congressman who
mad Their applications in early are
reaping che reward Cf tier forethougbt.
In this connection the congressman for
The Eighth district of Michigan, Hon.
Joseph w. Fordney, is entitled to hearty
ana sincere congratulation, he having
succeeded in promoting the establish
ment OF number of routes in his
constituency, and il Mckinley is elected
and Mr.. Fordney returned to congress,
more of them will be established i'm
the Eighth district.
The Democratic share in the rural
free delivery service comes in the fact
that it was elected in three successive
years by the Cleveland admnistra-
ton. It was something useful and prac-
tical, outside the pale of fantastic
theory, and offering no opportunity
for political jobbery. Therefore it was
rejected and despised. Both Postmaster
General Bissell and Postmaster General
Wilson refused to obey the law of con-
gress, providing for its blishment
In 1898 Mr.. Bissell not only dec incl
to carry out the provisions of the rural
free-delivery section of the postoffice
appropriation bill, but in his annual
report he objected TO any further leg
islation on that subject. Congress, how
ever, renewed the appropriation in
1893 and 1894 and 1895 and in 1896
made the law mandatory, SO that dur
ing the last few weeks of his admin
istration Postmaster General Wilson
established 40 experimental routes in
different parts OF the country, but did
not take enough interest in them to
report the fact.
In March, 1897, when the Mckinley
administration came into power, Perry
S. Heath, who knew a thing or two
about the needs OF the farming popula-
ton, took the subject up immediately
and pushed 1t SO rapidly that there are
now 2,O39 different routes, by which
27,30O farmers families have
their mail brought to their doors at
least once q day for six days in the
week, just like the people of the
cities.
Before the end of the present fiscal
year this daily mail delivery will be
extended to more than 1000, 900 farm
ers' families throughout the United
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26
HON. j. W. FORDNEY
Endorsed by the Farmers Asso-
% Citations.

Endorsed by the Farmers Asso-
% Citations.
Among the congressman to whom the
farmers are indebted for the above
amendments was Hon. j. w. Fordney,
of Saginaw, Michigan, who with other
members OF his committee from the
northwest labored hard and sue
cessfully to improve the bill to its
present satisfactory condition.
1t gives mo pleasure to state, these
facts in reference to the able service
given by Congressman Fordney, who
belongs to o. party Which am polit.-
cally opposed to, but, out OF q sense
OF justice which is incumbent upon me
as the executive agent Of several ma
tional agricultural ass oclatons who
are absolutely non-partisan, and in
view of the fact that l noticed an
article denouncing Mr.. Fordney for
his attitude as q supporter OF the
Frye-Payne ship subsidy bill in the
Saginaw Evening News of Oct. ., and
declaring that Mr.. Wellington K. Burt
IL elected, would vote against the SHIN
subsidy bill, it becomes my unpleas-
ant duty To make these facts known
10 the public generally and the farm
ers particularly.
This act is done without the knowl-
edge or consent OF Mr.. Fordney, be-
cause it is an act of justice, which We
are at all times ready and willing 10
render to the Friend Of the farmer"
which we can truthfully say Mr.. Ford
ney has given substantial and practical
evidence, and it is TO the interest Of
tine agricultural community that Mr..
Forduey should receive their PRACTICAL
support at the polls in the coming
political contest.
Respectfully yours,
j. @. HANLEY,
Executive Agent Allied Agricultural
Association of America.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26
RECORD ON TRUSTS.

Mr.. Bryan says the Republican party
has no plan for destroying trusts.
What is Bryan's record on the trust
question? William j. Bryan was elected
10 congress in 1890 and reelected
in 1892 upon "anti-mouopoly" plat.
forms. During Mr.. Bryan's first term
his party controlled the house by 100
net majority, but the Republican pres
idcnt and senate, as the Sherman act
proved, were ready and willing to aid
Mr.. Bryan to suppress monopolies.
During Mr.. Bryan's second term his
party was in complete control of the
government, under this platform as
to trusts: eve demand the rigid en-
forcement Of the laws made to prevent
and control them, together with further
legislation in restraint of their abuses"
The Chicago Inter-Ocean prints o. lis,
of 40 trusts, with an aggregate capi-
talization of $S3O,768,96O, organized
or reorganized and strengthened be-
tween the years 1891 and 1894, while
Mr.. Bryan sat in congress, and during
all that time he never raised his voice
or lifted a finger to smash them. And
Mr.. Bryan desires w. Il. Burt elected
70 congress in the Eighth District to
vote in congress to ''smash the trusts"
Is there anything in the past record
Of either Bryan or Burt to lead the
voters of the Eighth district to believe
that the trusts would suffer at their
hands?
There is not.