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The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
SIR WILLIAM T. STEAD.
The Queen May Mako the Great Radical
q Knight Very Soon.

Knight Very Soon.
Now that we are soon to celebrate the
queens diamond jubilee, the sixtieth
anniversary of her reign, we may also
expect big batch Of new knights and
baronets, shining medals and glittering
decorations. 1 hear that among those
who are most likely to be knighted is
W. T. Stead, the quondam radical re-
former of The Pail Mall Gazette, the
present loyalty conservative but frankly
outspoken editor of The Review of Re-
views.
In recent number of his periodical
Stead has given us an interesting and
ingenious account of his personal con-
version from the doctrine of republican
ism to the doctrine of royalism. He
started as a young man by believing in
president or protector like Crom-
well. He now losses up his hat, meta
phorically, for Queen Victoria.
Seven years ago Stead was sent to Jail
for writing and publishing certain SEN
sational articles in which the vices Of
the nobility were pretty severely casti-
gated. should be surprised if in this
year of grace Stead didn It receive han
die to his name as reward for his re-
cent change of heart. Gladstone reward
ed Sir George Newnes. shouldn t won
der if Salisbury and Balfour permanent
ly conciliated Stead. London Cor.
Washington Post.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
COUNTRY ROADS.
The Vast Majoritity of Them Are Simply
Stretches of Dirt.

The Vast MajOritity of Them Are Simply
Stretches of Dirt.
For 100 years or more newspapers,
philosophers and political economists
have vainly tried to convince the tillers
of soil that they, more than any other
class of people, were directly, vitality
and pecuniarily interested i'll making
and maintaining country highways over
which heavy loads and light ones could
he drawn without the expenditure of an
unnecessary amount of costly strength
The farmers studied tax rates and
either would not hear or would not heed
any statistics whose bearing was less
immediate, though not less obvious. The
vast majority of rural roads continued
to be stretches of dirt, made into dust
by the sun, into mud by the rain and
always enforcing the truth that the dis
tance between a farm and market de-
ponds more on the nature of the road
connecting them than on the number
of miles separating them. Wheeling
Register.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
THE OUTLOOK BRIGHT.


The Year 1897 Promises to BE Notable In
Highway Improvement.
It becomes more and more apparent
that what was formerly public request
for good roads is now becoming public
demand, says The L. A. W. Bulletin
Where the people Were once satisfied to
make suggestion they are now dis
posed to dictate What is good for ev-
erybody nobody should oppose.
1t is now pretty we'll understood that
good roads are the most economical in
vestment people can put their money
in. How to improve the public high
ways is now the topic of discussion.
There is no longer any question that
they should be improved.
The already overtaXed farmers are be-
ginning to look upon the securing of
good roads rs local means of increas-
ing their welfare rather than as some
thing to add to their present heavy bur
den Of debt. There is n getting together
of all the forces interested i'll the sub
ject that warrants the prediction that
1897 is to be notable year in highway
improvements The lawmakers and the
roadmakers are being encouraged by all
classes and ages to do something of a
practical nature.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
To Build Good Roads,

70 be worth anything at all a road
must be constructed scientifically, SAYS
the St. Paul Globe The system Of
mending" roads in vogue in this coun-
try from colonial times is worse than
nothing All labor and money so ex-
pended are utterly wasted There is but
one kind of road that deserves the adj
jective good, and that is highway
constructed under competent engineer
ing supervision according to scientific
ally approved methods. 1t must have a
substantial foundation, good surfac-
ing and careful system Of inspection
and repair. These matters should not be
left to local guidance. There ought tc
be a state engineer for road construc-
ton, by whose directions the work
must be carried on everywhere.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
CONVICT LABOR ON ROADS.
Would Not Compete with Free Labor If
Worked ON the HighwaYs.

would Not Compete with Free Labor If
Worked on the Highways.
The only way prisoners can be en-
ployed without competing directly with
free labor is to put them to work on
public improvements that could not be
constructed for years to come but for the
utilization upon them of labor of this
sort, says the Chicago Record In this
way there may be secured improvements
of inestimable value for all time that
the public might not have felt warrant
ed in constructing under other circum-
stances. There is no doubt that good
roads would be worth almost any amount
to community but it is practically
impossible to get taxing bodies to take
from the people the sums necessary for
their construction.
Making Of good roads would be in
many respects ideal employment for a
portion of the states convicts, and the
proposition so to employ them has been
revived in New York The chief objec-
ton to the plan, peculiarly enough, is
a sentimental one. 1t is argued that the
popular sense would revolt at the sight
of convicts under guard at work in the
presence of the public. This objection
has same weight, but it should not be
made to appear insuperable.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
ROAD SUGGESTIONS.
INFORMATION AS TO BUILDING AND
REPAIRING.

Valuable Hints on the Construction ana
Repair of Highways-Size and Quality
of Stone-The Best Foundation Use of
the Roller and Its Weight.
The annual report of Henry L. Budd,
commissioner Of public roads in New
Jersey, is a document of general i1npor-
lance, inasmuch as New Jersey is con
ceded to be the model state in road
building.
One of the most interesting and valu-
able chapters i'll the report is that Of
Instructions to freeholders, engineers,
supervisors and others interested in
building and repairing roads, - made
necessary by the frequent change in
these officials. Some of the suggestions
are:
1.-THE hardest and toughest stone or
rock procurable at a reasonable cost
should be selected.
"All stone should be as near cubical
as possible, and none should be over p
inches each way in diameter.
''The earthen base should be thor
oughly drained, the water taken out and
kept out, then rolled until the roller
ceases to make any impression on it and
made to conform to the same curvatures
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
MORGAN'S ESCAPE.
The Veteran Senator just Missed Being
Hit With an Inkstand.


Hit With an Inkstand.
A veteran correspondent was toying
innocently the other day in the senate
press gallery with an empty inkstand.
He twirled the glass cover round and
round while Senator Morgan talked and
talked of the Nicaragua canal bill and
the awful things threatened by Great
Britain.
The correspondent pulled the inkstand
out of its place and twirled the cover
again. Senator Morgan's eloquent peri
cd drew his attention, and the inkstand
was forgotten. It hung in his limp fin
gers, and then there was resounding
thud on the senate floor as an object sped
by the head Of the senator who was pre-
siding over the august body.
Senator Morgan paused in the midst
Of his eloquent period, and the attention
of the august body was diverted to the
fleeing form of the correspondent. He
and another who sat beside him disap-
peared through the gallery doors. They
were seen no more that afternoon at the
capitol. An officer from the sergeant-at-
arms Office is looking for them. Now
the inkstands will be clamped down.
Washington Post.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
National Road Congress.

The committee on resolutions of the
national good roads congress at Orlando
reported a resolution favoring the enact
ment of laws by which all classes and
interests must bear the burden of road
Improvement. A subsequent resolution
provided that the state should not bear
more than one third of the expense, the
rest to be borne by counties or indiyid-
uals Immediately interested
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
The Efficacy of Prayer

The other night, at the holiness meet
ing, the Rev. T. G. Eason astonished
many of those present by protesting
sanctification. He related his experience
at length, a part of which is to the eff
feet that while trying to quit the use of
tobacco after being sanctified he felt
great annoyance and even pain over his
craving for the weed, but when he and
his friends prayed that such annoyance
be removed he received almost instanta-
Moons relief -Galveston News
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
Nevada May Have a Rival.

Idaho may go into acompetitive bust
ness with Nevada to secure prizefghts
rs a means of advertising the state and
promoting the art of self defense.
A bill, which in many respects fol-
lows the lines of the Nevada law legal
izing glove contests, has been intro
duced in the house.
The license is fixed at SIS, 900, but
this, it is understood, is for'the purpose
of giving latitude in the matter of cut
ting.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
burned CLAY.

a writer in the Davenport la Lead
er advocates burned clay as road ma
terial He says that he has seen rail
road track 'ballaSted" with the clay
simply put on like ashes, and the sur
face was SO hard that it was impossible
to force ones heel into it. 1t seems, he
adds, simple solution of the road ma
terial problem, good and cheap.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
A WOnan's Hotel.

Real estate men are talking of the
project to erect woman's hotel on
Fifth avenue, New York. 1t is to cost
$4,000, 900, and includes a woman's
bank, apartments, exchange, hotel, re-
ception rooms--everything but WON
ans cook stove.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
Good Roads Notes.

Good roads are cheapest in the long
run, also i'll the short run.
Ask for good roads, insist ON getting
them.
A road should be fixed little while
before ii needs it rather than long
while after.
If you don't see the good roads you
want in your vicinity, ask for them.
Good roads indicate corporate intelli-
gence.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14

The men who would rather pay 500
year for shoeing horses and repairing
wagons than $40 a year for a good road
tax are still in the majority in many
regions Philadelphia Ledger
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
Would Benefit Farmers.

1t is said that the farmers of Missouri
would benefit by the employment Of
convicts ON road improvements to thu
amount of $12, 900, 600 annually.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
BODYBUILDING PROBLEM.
1t Is Question Calling For Careful Study
and Intelligent Action.

and Intelligent Action.
"While the administrative part of
roadmal1ing in this country cannot be
said to have passed the experimental
stage, says one of the constantly grow
ing number of good roads" men to a
representative of the Philadelphia Press,
''yet it is we'll and actively begun.
Nearly every state in the Union has
lately passed laws bearing ON the pres
ent movement for improved highways.
While these laws show variety of
plans and methods by which the one
common object is to be gained they
uniformly show that the real difficulty
is not how to build good roads as an
engineering problem, but rather who
shall build them, how shall the money
be raised with which to build them,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of
Massachusetts,, has always been a
staunch friend of Hawaii, and now
that she applied for annexation to
the great republic, and the ques-
ton must be fairly and squarely
met, he takes every opportunity to
show the necessity of perfecting the
annexation of the group. In re-
cent interview he said: GAS to
Hawaii, the Presidents policy
seems to me in the highest degree
wise, strong and statesmanlike.
For 5 years we have maintained
close relations with those islands.
Americans have developed and con-
trolled them. Repeatedly we have
declared that the interference of
any other nation would be regarded
as an act of hostility to the United
States. The powers of Europe
have recognized and accepted our
position. Now the japanese are
pouring in there and trying to get
control of the islands by colonial
ton. We have no right to say to
those Americans and Europeans
who have made the islands what
they are that we will leave them
to be submerged and overwhelmed
by an Asiatic invasion. IF we are
not prepared to protect our own
kith and kin in those islands, then
we must allow them to seek the
protection and good government of
England. To this latter course we
should never assent, and, therefore,
the one unavoidable duty is to take
the islands ourselves. Every COM
mercial, military and political rea-
son commands such action. It is
pitiful to say that we may find
difficulties and annoyances in man
aging Hawaii. A people who have
subdued the American continent
and fought the greatest war of
modern times can surely manage
a little group of islands in the Paci-
fic."
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10

mostly mountainous country. Inns
offer Turkey declines, and here the
matter rested at the latest date.
The possession of the island of
Crte, is also mixed up in the peace
settlement. The Cretans wish to
be annexed to Greece, while Russia
wants it to remain attached to Tur-
key. So that it is really a three
cornered affair. y German writer
gives the following statement,
showing Russia's interest in the
peace settlement: The attitude of
Russia in the .Greco-Turkish con
troversy with regard to Crete has
occasioned a good deal of surprise,
as, Notwithstanding the blood ties,
which connect the Greek and Rus
sian thrones, the policy of the great
White Bear of the east has been
decidedly pro-Turkish. This, how
ever, is easily explained by the fact
that the Island of Crete is strate-
gic point of more than usual i'm
portance as a coaling station, which,
should Greek annexation become
an accomplished fact, would be for
ever lost to Russia. On the other
hand, the Russian mind has never
ceased to cherish the belief that
Russian supremacy in Turkey is
sooner or later inevitable, and
should Crete remain an integral
part of the Turkish empire, Russia
would then hold the key to the east
ern basin of the Mediterranean.
Russia, therefore, has not been at
all scrupulous in the methods en-
ployed by her in blocking the plans
of King George by resorting to the
course Of setting by the ears the
smaller principalities of the Balkan
peninsula.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10
Merit

Made and Merit Maintains the confidence
of the people in Hoods SarsapariIla. If a
medicine cures you when you are sick; if
it cures your neighbors and your friends
when they are ailing; ii it makes wonder
full cures of many diseases everywhere,
then beyond any question that medicine
possesses merit. That is just the truth
about Hoods Sarsaparilla. Prepared by
accumulation, proportion and process un-
known to other medicines, it has curative
powers peculiar to itself. We know it
possesses great merit because it has
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10
Made

Cures, not once or twice or hundred
times, but in thousands and thousands
of cases. We know it cures, absolutely,
permanently cures, when all others fail to
do any good whatever.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is known to possess
merit or the power to cure disease; it is
known to be the best building-up medicine
on earth; it is known to be honestly adver-
tised, and for these reasons the people
buy and take Hoods Sarsaparilla almost
to the exclusion of other preparations.
In fact, Merit Made and Merit Maintains
the confidence of the people in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10

A Japanese manufacturer recently
visited Germany for the purpose of in
speeding some needle factories, but he
was much disappointed to find that he
was everywhere refused admission.
The German manufacturers candidly
told him that it would be inimical to
their interests to allow Japanese man
ufacturers to learn their trade secrets
in order that they might subsequently
compete with the German industry
Japan Times.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10


Little has been reported of late
regarding the war between. Greece
and Turkey. At the latest date,
an armistace had been agreed to,
pending negotiations for peace.
Turkey demands the surrender of
the entire province of Thessaly ~
ing between Greece and Turkey
proper. Greece refuses to surren-
der it, as it is peopled almost wholly
by Greeks. The council of the Eu-
ropean Powers are willing to grant
to Turkey strip along the north
ern boundary line of Thessaly,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10

The consolidation of Hawaii with the
United States will be TO the immediate
and increasing advantage of both
countries. The commercial develop
ment of the Islands, already swift and
substantial, will receive new impetus
American trade influence in the Pacific
will experience rapid expansion. Our
naval supremacy in those waters will
be indisputable.-New York Mail and
FXDrpSS
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10
TIMELY TOPICS
JULY ;, 1897.
STOVES.

The public of the Hawai-
ian Islands know a good
thing when they see it and
the best thing in the way Of
oil stoves is universally adj
mitted by. them to be the
justly celebrated Blue Flame
| Oil Stove.
So much are they appre-
ciated that we would not
mention them were it not
for the fact that a fresh sup
ply has reached us. In ad-
dition to these sizes in use
here, we have a third or
smaller size, especially re-
commended and constructed
for small families, and en-
bracing all the qualities
found in the larger sizes.
The Dietz Stove Company
1.-The largest oil stove manu-
facturers in the United States
--are now turning out a
beautiful stove for burning
kerosene. Complete with
oven and pots, etc.
We have several in as
sorted sizes and are diSpoS-
ing of them at a very low
figure.
In wood or coal burning
stoves we have the celebrat-
ed Fisher Steel Ranges. The
Pansy, sizes 6, 7 and 8. The
Columbus, sizes 7 and 8.
The Olive, Bono; and for
hotels or restaurants we have
a specially suitable one--The
Empire City. In this the
oven is very large, the heat
ing surface exceptionally SO,
and the price very low in
deed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10
SECRETARY CAGES PLANS.

President Mckinley has been
extremely fortunate in the selec-
ton of the men placed at the head
of each of the important branches
of the government, and in none
more so than In the choice of Mr..
Gage of Chicago as Secretary of
the treasury. Mr.. Gage is west
ern man, of middle age, who has
risen from an office boy to the rank
of being considered the leading
banker and fnancier in the United
States. He has never been a spec
ulator, In any sense of the word,
but has made finances and banking
a life study, and probably has the
clearest and most intelligent views
regarding money and banking, OF
any man living. To have such a
person placed at the head of the
treasury department of the United
States, just at this time, when ma
tional finances need a clear head
and a firm hand to direct the
changes which are demanded, is
creditable alike to the President
who selected him, and to himself
in relinquishing lucrative office
for one yielding half its salary.
Another instance of President
McKinley's sagacity and hberality
is the retention of Mr.. Eckles, as
controller of the currency. He is
a democrat, was appointed by Mr..
Cleveland, and though a young
man of only thirty years of age,
and in personal appearance a mere
boy, is considered as one of the
ablest officers for his bureau that
has ever held the position. To
these two men will be left the re-
organization of the currency sys-
tenn, with the assistance OF other
officials and public men who have
made the currency and banking
a study. The plan is to draw up
a bill accompanied with a report
on national finances to be present
ed at the opening of the December
session of Congress. Although no
details have been published regard
ing the plan which Secretary Gage
proposes to establish, it is thought
that it will adopt the best features
of the Canadian banking system,
which has worked so we'll, and is
considered better than any system
that has been tried. The green
backs will then be withdrawn from
circulation as fast as can be done
with safety.
The measure, when completed,
will be submitted to the President
and his cabinet, and any serious
objections to it will need to be re-
moved. The aim will be to satisfy
the views of both parties, so far
as it can be done.
If an outsider may be allowed
to make a suggestion, it would be
to withdraw from circulation all
bank or treasury notes of five dol
lars and under, and allow none to
be issued. This would make a de-
mand in the United States for sill
yer, such as has not existed for
many years-silver having been
almost wholly driven out of cir
culation by the small bills. Five
dollars in change is not a large
amount to carry in ones purse or
pocket, but when it comes to fifty
millions of people, each one on an
average having that amount, it
would give to silver a circulation
and demand which it does not now
have in the United States.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10
HAWAII JoTTinGS.

By the terms of the Hawaiian treaty
this country is to pay the 100000 in
debtedness of the Islands. By dint of
tall hustling Hawaii was able to fur
nish the pen for the signing of the
treaty.-Detroit Free Press.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10

Montana mines yielded $50, 1892, 900
last year, $4,3S0,000 gold, 20,234, 900
silver and $25, 1856, 900 copper.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Ohio brickmakers are using a clay
digging machine that does the work of
from II to 20 men,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-10

Popocatapetl has been bonded to an
American syndicate to mine for sui
phur.