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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18
PERSONAL.

James z. MARITIME the Farmer Orator Of New
Jersey enjoys the distinction of having been the
candidate of his party-the Democratic-for almost
every office In his county and Senate district for
the last thirty years. without having won
Mr., MARITIME. who was defeated for Congress at the
last ELECTION: was the Democratic choice for United
spoken Of as the Democratic candidate for Governor
next fall.
Frederick Holbrook, Governor of Vermont during
the Civil War. celebrated his ninety-fourth birth
day at his home In BrattleborO last week.
Professor Genung who has Just completed
twenty-five years service a member Of the Am
herst College faculty has obtained a six months
leave of absence, and he will go to the Holy Land
with three objects in vew-rest: preparation for his
Gently assigned him and opportunity to make plans
for future literary work.
Eric Geddes, recently appointed freight manager
OF the Northeastern Railway in England. is an
small station the Baltimore & Ohio road. Later
he was connected with railroad enterprises In India
At a recent meeting of the Mechanical Engineer
ing Society Of Iehigh University. the twenty-ffth
year consecutive service OF Professor J. F Klein
head of the department OF mechanical engineering
was celebrated. The alumni Of that department and
the Mechanical Engineering Society OF the unver-
lean Society of Mechanical Engineers. silver low
ing cup and gold watch.
Dr. Emil O. Hirsch is advocating the starting of
properly conducted dance halls a counter attrac-
ton to those which owe their existence solely to
the revenue derived from them, hoping thereby to
overcome many OF the evils attributed 10 the ordi
nary dance halls.
Harry Libby. OF Hampton Va has sent his an
nuaI gift of oysters to the members OF the press
gallery In Washington. Mr.. Libby was in the
House In the Forty-eighth Congress. and about this
time every year since then ne has sent to Colonel
Mann. superintendent Of the press gallery. boun-
workers at luncheon, Mr. Libby Is postmaster or
James River.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18
BATTLESBIP POLICY.

The House having passed the Naval Appro-
priatOn bill last week, the fate Of the Presi-
dents request for authority To build two ten
gun batteships rests with the Senate Two
questions are involved in Mr.. Roosevelt's propo-
sition. One relates to the type which shall be
adopted as the next standard by the government
and the other to the number of vessels to be
sanctioned this winter. Practically no disagree
ment arose in the House on the first Of these.
From that fact it may be inferred that in the
Senate the chief difference of opinion will be
over the second.
consideration which will probably not be
without influence Oh the decision of that BODY is
the effect Of this years legislation on the stand
ing of America IS q naval power few wears
hence. when the programmes TO which other
nations are now committed shall have been car
ried ont. Some light on this point is shed bv
William &. GroCsbeck, United States Naval Con
s uctor. in the current issue Of The Navy"
The comparison is limited to first class battle
ships although that term really embraces sew
eral distinct groups of vessels and gives tho
outlook for the year 1912 The computation in
cludes the ships whose completion within the
next five years may be expected as we'll as the
great majority of those now in commission but
it excludes ships which will then he sixteen
years old, and hence may be assumed to have
outlived their usefulness. Mr. Groesbeck est
mates that at that time England will have 30
battleships Germany 26, the United States %.
France 22 and Japan IA. According to Bras
seys Annual" an accepted authority in sucn
matters, France to-day ranks second in effective
strength the United States third and Germany
fourth. Mr.. Groesbeclls figures therefore. point
to an exchange of positions by Germany and
France but leave very little difference between
the former and the United States.
Americas inferority TO Germany might no
come more evident If the ornaments Of the ships
represented in Mr.. Groesbecks tables were COM
pared. The theory embodied in the design of
the DreadnOught and the Satsuma is that bat.
tleship should carry only guns which are suited
To long range fighting, and that calibres of six
seven and eight inches should be discarded
Suppose, then, that the effective strength of the
principal navles OF the world five or six wears
hence be estimated on the basis of the fen
eleven and twelve inch guns with which thev
will be provided. II was rumored last summer
that the German Emperor had determined IN
alter the design OF two battleshps. the con-
struction CT which had been authorized so that
they would each carry sixteen I1-inch guns
Should that report he true, one of these vessels
would be equal TO four OF Germany's next best
battleshiDs and TO four Louisanas or four Vir-
ginas. Now, suppose Germany should build
four such vessels and have eighteen ships OF tho
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18
DEATH BY RAIL.

Week by week the list of railroad catastro-
Plies lengthens and the death roll grows There
used to he, perhaps, some point in making fun
of country pumpkins who were frankly timorouS
about railway travel. But fear is beginning TO
I>y hold of us all, and Saturday nights horror
is enough to shake the stoutcst heart. No doubt
official investigation will sooner or later tell us
whether the White Plains express was derailed
by excessive speed or spread rails, or a broken
axle, or the collapse of a decrepit car. or some
other cause. The information has only AGA
demic interest just now; the essential fact IS
that a score of human beings were killed with
horrible swiftness. while a round hundred were
MANNED And all this not far away in some
frequented region. but within the municipal
limits of New York City.
1t is not the specific cause in one case or an
other that creates such disquetude that makes
even Mr.. James J. Hill say, according TO report,
that he is afraid TO travel by rail 1t is the
fact that American railway companies have not
yet gained control over all the conditions neces-
sary 10 safety. There may be thousand duties
involved in the transportation of passengers; 1t
may be that failure to perform any one of these
obligations might bring disaster and death, but
the great public of railway travellers must in
sst that every provision be made for the safety
of every train. Fine and high speed are
not enough their comforts become perilS with
careless dispatchers engineers or section gangs.
1t is time however for the public to recognize
that its own inSistency may, at bottom, be the
cause of many horrors. 1t might be wiser TO
pray the railway companies for safety. above all
things and after safety for comfort promptness
and speed. On tracks within New Yorks com
mutlng zone trains run during the rush hours
almost with the frequency of streetcars. Thou
sands of citizens who insist upon living in the
country insist also upon having fast trains rendy
L carry them at all hours of the day and night.
Perhaps railway officials ought to have shown
more tirmness in refusing these demands Of the
commuters. even at the risk of unpopularty. 1t
would be better to be cursed and cartooned than
70 yield 10 the clamor of public which knows
nothing Of railroading and thereby to Kill a car
full of human beings. This latest tragedy ought
to be lesson to travellers and officials alike:
to the travellers to think less Of their personal
convenience and more Of public safety; to the
officials to make every train, local or express
as safe as human foresight and skill can make
It, before anything else is taken into cOnsidera-
ton. This means, however, more sympathy AMI
less seltlshness all around, more strength of
mind and less fear of popular disapproyal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18
VARDAMAy VERSUS W1LLIAus.

The Democratic voters of Mississippi are to
nominate next August United States Sen
ator to succeed fernando De Soto Money when
the latters term expires on March 3, 1911. The
two leading candidates for the succession are
Governor J. X. Nardaman and Representative
John Sharp Williams. Reports which come
from Mississippi indicate that the Governor IS
making steady Roadway with his canvass and
that Mr.. Williams is losing rather than gaining
ground. The country at large would undoubt-
eddy prefer TO see Mr. Williams win His ser
vice in the House Of Representatives where for
two Congresses he has led the Democratic mi
DOrity with greater skill and more credit than
many Of his predecessors in that thankless ana
difficult undertaking, has made him familiar
figure in national politics. He is an ant and
often eloquent speaker, and in matters which
DO not Involve his special prejudices an intelli-
gent and useful legislator. He measures more
nearly than any other man in Mississippi M TO
that states better standards of qualification for
public service. He approaches III equipment
the type of Lamar and Walthall while his op-
ponent so far as the country now knows him
represents a marked deterioration from thar
type. Mr.. Nardaman stands for cruder and
rawer ideas, and for 4 harsher attitude toward
the dependent race TO which the South looks TO
do its labor and on whose economic fitness for
that task the South's prosperity must continue
10 hinge for several generations. To that ex
tent he is a reactionary whose policies m
wisely threaten and darken the future
Yet from another point of view it is easy to
understand why Mississippi should be tempted
to prefer M Nardaman TO Mr. Williams The
weakness in the latters make-up-a weakness
shown in his leadership OF the House minor
ify-is that he does not know exactly what he
wants or where he stands politically. He can
not square himself with practical conditions
Afr. Williams has expended a great deal of in
teilectual energy in exploiting ideas on tariff
taxation which nearly everybody else now In
alualic life admits TO be obsolete. He belongs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18

by conviction to an almost extinct school
the school which held that our protective tarlIr
was born in iniquty and applied In folly, ana
that its effects were in a national sense abso-
lutely injurious and demOraliZing. The pro-
tective theory was to economy, in this schools
opinion, what original sin and total depravity
were to theology. National development under
our tariffs has made that contention ludicrous.
But Mr. Williams still clings to IT, and while
other political leaders. both Republicans ana
Democrats prepared to reduce the tarln on
the ground that in many lines of industry pres
ent rates are not needed for its beneficent work.
he still argues that it never was anything but
a mOnstrous outrage and an incubus on ma
tional growth.
This same haziness of vision has cropped out
in connection with the chief issue on which MIR
Williams and Governor Vardaman are making
their present fight. 1t will be admitted mat
party which intends TO nominate Mr.. Bryan for
the Presidency next year must be prepared TO
appeal TO the cOuntry'S ultra radical sentiment
Mr. Williams wants to be halfway radical
not too radical. but just radical enough. He
favOrs Mr.. Bryans denomination. Yet, as he
says, he wants to de-radicaliZe the candidates
programme-to save him from himself" As
an excuse for not accepting Mr.. Bryan's rail
road ownership policies he has sounded the
alarm that government ownership will elimi-
nate the Jim Crow car. And the Jim Crow
car is the cornerstone of MissisSippi's civtliza
ton, Governor Vardaman takes n more prac-
teal view of the situation. He thinks that the
Jim Crow" regulations can take care of them
selves. They not national issue. But Mr.
Bryans government ownership programme is
and if the Democratic party chooses to renom-
nate Mr. Bryan with Its eyes wide open it will
have 10 stand for his ideas and make no pre-
tence of saving him from himself In this
respect the Governor has logic on his side. and
logic tells in elections. If Mr.. Yardaman wins
in the Mississippi primary it will be because the
voters prefer n leader who has pronounced and
positive opinions to leader who doesn't know
exactly where he is at"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18
AnIUSements.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-s:15-The Music Master.
ALEXANDRA 2-s-Vaudeville
ASTORzS .3O-Cenesee Of the Hills.
BELAsCo-s:I5- Rose of the Rancho.
BERKELEY LYCETM-s :80-The Reckoning.
BIJOU-s l5-AH- Ola Sudden Peggy.
BROADwAY-s:I5-Th Partisan Model
CAsINO-s-The White Hen.
CoLONIALl-2-s-Vaudeville
CRITERIoN-s:8O-T Tattooed Man.
DALYs-s:15-The Belle Mayfair
EDEN MCsEE-The World in
ENPIRE-s-CaptaIn links.
0ARDEN-sI5-The Little Michus.
GARRICK-S :90-Caught in the Rain.
HACKETT-s 5O-The Corus Lady.
IfABMERsTEIN'S -s:15-vsudsville.
HERALD sQUARE-s:15-The Road Yesterday.
HIPPODROME- Daughter and Pioneer
Days.
HUDsoN-s:15-The Typocrites
IRVING PLACES. 20-Der BIinde Passagier
KEICK RBOCKER-s.15-The Red Mil.
LIBERTY-e:15-salom Jane.
LINCOLN SQUARE-s:I5-The Two Orphans
LYCEUM-sl5-The Lion and Mouse.
LFRIC-s-The Merchant OF Venice.
MADISON SQUARE s:15-The Three Of Us
MAJESTIC-s:1O-The Rose OF the Alhambra
MAEHATTAN-s:1 5-Tne Girl and the Governor.
MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSES. l5-Aignon.
NENDELsSOFTN HAIL1-2:30-Piano Recital
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSB-S-L Africans-
NEW AMSTERDAM-s:15- Millions.
NEW ToRK-s:15- George Washington. Jr.
PRINCEsS-s:2o-The Great Divide.
SAVOY-S:15-The OF
PHILHARMONIC HALI-2-s-Electric Music.
WALLACK's- s:I5-The Rich Mr.. Hoggenheimer.
WEBER :15-Dream City The Magic knight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18

old kind fit for service. She would then have
1876 big guns in service. If the United States
were to build two ships of the kind recon-
mended by the President each mounting ten
guns this country could count on only 1914 guns
Of the largest calIbre. The Michigan and the
South Carolina would each contribute eight to
the total. and twenty-five other battleships only
four each.
Mr.. Hales committee may deem it worth
while TO inquire into the truth of the reports
which have been circulated in regard to Ger
many's plans. to consider to what extent the
Kaisers recent victories at the polls will stin-
ulate his desire for naval expansion, and to
weigh the expedency of permitting him to in
crease the lead which Germany promises soon
to secure over this country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18

Again we hear OF Hellcon Hall. Mr. Upton SIN
clair's boarding house Utopia, and again there
is criticism of the food, which is to be expected
regarding a boarding house but not we had
fondly hoped, of Utopia. First we were told
that the butter was bad and now we learn that
the hash Is not up to the best standards Mr..
Sinclair protests that bad butter may happen in
the best regulated boarding house and in the
best regulated Utopia. Doubtless. but the world
has a right to demand that hash shall always be
good in Utopia. If hash is not good there. how
can anything be; for In 1t not q compendium OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18

Last week outbreaks of virulent diseases OF a
potentially epidemic nature were reported from
three leading Eastern colleges. one of the insti-
tutions being badly menaced as to be COM
PEELED to dismiss it's students for time and
close its doors. Most circumstances suggest
that colleges should be exceptionally free from
such visitations and should have higher stand
ards of health than ordinary communities. and
whenever disasters of this kind occur there Is
cause for a thorough searching not only Of
hearts. but Of buildings water and food sup
plies. and general sanitary supervision.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18

Now that a Pittsburg astronomer has dis
covered a sun spot three and half million
square miles big the strange activity of the
London "suffragettes.' the San Francisco anti
Japanesers and the Washington prohbtionists
becomes Ineligible. We await only the aurora
borealis and tidal wave of watered stock from
President Stickney. After this much chaos
poor old Earth will, we hope, be allowed to settle
back into the quiet humdrum of the Thaw trial
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18

America does not want to NEEDLE In the
Congo elsewhere, but it also does not want
to international scandal indefinitely
maintained. And there will be such a scandal
50 long as appalling charges are made against
the Congo State and their truth or falsity is not
determined the state OF affairs which gives
the pretext for them is not radically amended
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-18
food, compound of the samples of all the deli
cacies in Utopia?

The Governor of Nebraska. who has caused
the state to sue him for rent on the Executive
Mansion. has finger on the popular pulse. A
man must not only be honest, but he must nnd
new ways of being honest; he must exhibit
novelties of scrupulosity. Why. they already
call the Nebraska Governor Honest George
all because he is unwilling to take 1t for granted
like his predecessors, that the state having
built an executive mansion intended it for the
Governors occupation! The states intent must
be proved in court.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-20
CITY WITHOUT
 WATER AGAIN.

For several hours last night the city was without water. Manager Fowles, of the Pine Bluff Light and Water company, stated today that the trou- ble was occasioned by an overhauling of the compressors, which is being accomplished by the Dilley Foundry company. The water will be shut off again today, he says, until the work can be completed, which will probably be finished tonight
 The fire at the Kaufman home, on West Fifth avenue last night, is said to have been caused by the sudden cutting off of the water, while it was running into a bath tub there. The instantaneous heater, which was burning at the time, ignited the walls of the bathroom and the frightful blaze followed Manager Fowles says the heater was improperly piped or the building would not have been ig- nited when the water was shut off.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-20
} . . . . . . . z . . , BRIEF MENTION. .
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F. B. Bloom returned from Little Rock last night.
 w. w. Jerome of Monticello, is in the city today. A. Brewster is home from busi- ness visit to Little Rock.
 A. M. Seible of West Sixth avenue, went to Little Rock today.
 John r. Rutherford was a business visitor in Little Rock yesterday.
 w. 7. Tankersley has returned from business trip to Little Rock.
 J. l.. Daniel and wife of Noble Lake are guests at the Hotel Jefferson.
 o. R. Shaffer and Met Gallapher were visitors in Little Rock yes terday.
 Attorney M A. Austin left today for Memphis, where he will transact legal business.
 Simon Bloom and w. R. Kirby of Warner are business visitors in the city today.
 Arthur w. Mills transacted business in Little Rock yesterday and returned home last night
 Doctor J. F. Simmons left today for Memphis, where he will remain sev- eral days on business.
 Attorney s. M. Taylor has returned home from Hot Springs, where he spent few weeks for his health.
 Sloan Jones, Pine Bluffs fastest roller skater, will race Willie Ro- zier at Little Rock Friday night for a purse of $50.
 Representative w. B. Pinney came down from Little Rock last night. He is 'suffring from tonsilitis and will probably remain here several days under treatment
 Roy T. Britton of St. Louis, son of General Manager and First Vice Pres dent F. H. Britton of the Cotton Belt, is in the city today on business: He $ guest at the Hotel Jefferson.
 Captain Sam F. Hilzheim of Green wood came here today on business md incidentally to witness the game ,f ball at Forest Park, this afternoon. which was arranged by him several lays ago.
 Miss Ray Kaufman, who has been 1 'is123456 789O$ 12 1890 1279O$. .$12345 l making her home at the residence of | 'abe Meyer on West Second avenue, i will leave Saturday for St. Louis, CT sister, Miss Rosa Kaufman.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-20

Cotter & Co.'s Daily Cotton Letter.
 New Orleans, March 2O-Liverpool is steadier, futures are to 3 points better than due, spot prices 2 points higher and the volume of spot sales increased to 12,O0O bales Cables report good undertone to the market On the other hand, re- cent advices by mail say that busi- ness in spots iG less profitable, the basis having gone back on nearly all imports except low grade.
 The better Liverpool, smaller fore. casts of receipts for tonorrow, and some short coverings before the census caused some advance in our markets this morning. With regard to the census figures to be published today at D. m., we have to draw attention to the fact that running bales this year are so much heavier than last season, therefore the first item of the census giving the number of running bales is to some extent and before acting on the market it may be well to wait for the third item on the census, which will be the number ol bales in 500-pound bales and can be equitably compared with 1O,777,51O 5OO-pound bales last year and 13,679,954 500-pound bales in the big crop of 19O4-5.
 The spot market Is quiet and steady, demand not particularly in evidence so far. Weather conditions in the belt continue good.
 WALTER COTTER & co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-20
ADJUSTMENTS

This is one of Lew Dockstader's latest:
 Two Germans were on their way to work, when one of them, Hans, ob- served their countrymau, Schneider, on the other side of the street, sweep ing the walk in front of his saloon.
 "Adolph." said Hans pointing to the saloon man, ''yust look at Schneider doing his own schweeping. By golly, he is der meanest und stingiest man vat iss."
 No retorted Adolph, ''he is not so stingy as you t'ink. He almost tdeated me vonce."
 How do you make dot oud?" ques- toned Hans. 'How could he almost treated you, 'vidoud doing it?'
 We'll. dot happened this way said Adolph. Won cold morning I drop ped into Schneider's place und sat me down by der fire for little warm ness, und Schneider vas cleaning der bar up He looked oil der bottles from der shelves. wiped dem clean, und sat dem on der bar: den he looked der glasses und did likewise after dot he wiped der shelves off, und put der clair bottles und glasses back Ven dis york was finished he looked over to me und says: We'll, Adolph vat are ve going to have?' Und yust as I vas going to say beer he say rain or snow?'"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-20
D4AA41uo1 o1]> ee~ . .
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.
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D. w. Boyce devotes his time to rents.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-20
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"CYCLONE'''
BLOOD CLEANER.

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 * This is the prescription which * when made up is called the ,' < "Vegetable Treatment by oth- E CTS, the Cyclone Blood Purl- < fer" It certainly does wonders < for some people who are sick . ly, weak and put of sorts, and IS x known to relieve serious, long, s standing cases of rheumatism t and chronic backache quickly. r Make some up and try it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-20
TO THE PLBLAS.

1 have opened np an upto date soda fOua:lin anu confeciioEar" store, and in cu1 lect ioa will serve light lu13acs. E,urtain nicely sit uater. Corr or Sixth and Hick " street. Your patronage solicited,
 l W. ". F. MOORE
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-20
CITY COUNCIL
 MEETS TONIGHT

The City Council will meet tonight in special session at 7:45 o'clock, to discuss the municipal ownership Dlll recently suggested, as Commissioners gently suggested, as commissioners for the new improvement district. me meeting promises to be an interesting one