The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-27

One of the North Carolina cottol
 mills, says the Wilmington Messenger
 made 3S per cent. profit last year; anoth
 CT 2e per cent, and it is claimed tha
 many mills made 20 per cent, while on,
 mill is said to have paid for itself il
 two years.
 President Harper of Chicago univer
 eity has forbidden the college band tt
 play "A Hot Time in the Old Town,
 because 'the tune is vulgar and i'm { moral, and its effect upon the under
 graduates is demoralizing. He also re
 quires the band, when heading a proces
 sion to the athletic field. to play inpar'
 tial music, nothing that would tend tc
 irritate opposing athletic teams.
 The Congregationalist acknowledges the receipt of an inquiry from a pious reader who wants to know what Jesus would do if He were President of the United States with the Philippine prob lem on His hands. The editor replies by saying that he cannot presume tc answer the question, but He ventures tc assume that under the conditions speci- fled Jesus would not be sending ques- ti0ns of this kind to religious newspa- pers
 It Is expected that after next Friday the sewage of Paris will no longer be
 turned into the Seine. Two great sew age farms, sandy plains, will receive the sewage holding the solid matter, while the water drains away in filtered con- dition. The tract selected is peculiarly adapted to the experiment and com plete success is expected. This effort to save the valuable fertilizing material contained in sewage and also to stop the fouling of rivers will be studied with great interest
 A Cincinnati man recently advertised his desire to sell a valuable secret for 50 cents. He stated that he would tell how he was cured of drinking, smoking, swearing, staying out at night, going to the races, gambling, and how he gained twenty pounds in weight in two years. Several persons sent him 50 cents each, and here is the secret they received: ''Just cured of all the bad habits named by an enforced residence for two years in the Ohio State Prison"
 With the first of next month foreign CTS in Japan will begin to be subject to Japanese laws in all respects as Japan ese citizens are and will be tried, if ar rested, in Japanese courts not in the consular courts. The treaties under which exceptional rights were formerly accorded to foreigners in Japan have been cancelled and new arrangements have been made by which Japan is placed on an equality with civilized countries. This has been done because it is believed that justice, according to western ideas can be had in Japanese courts. In most heather and Moham- medan countries the laws are so bad and the Judges are so corrupt that Christian nations claim the right to try their citi- zens in courts presided over by their own officials.
 The wichita (Kansas) Eagle has had +his vision: We look into a cradle and behold a male child. At the age of ten he is a noisy kid, with half the buttons off his pants, and an eye for meanness. At the age of 15 he is devil in print shop; at 25 the publisher of country at the head of every enter prise to improve the town or enrich the business thereof; at 35 he is an emaciat- ed and wornout man, with holes in his nockets and bald head; at the age of 50 he is a corpse in a cheap coffin, and his only resources left behind him are two cases of long primer type, Wash I ingtOn hand press anu Supscrlptlon book with -5OO delinquent subscribers, wholinedup and marched past the office, | saving: "He was public spirited fel- | low. but he couldn't save anything"
 The Masonic Grand Lodge of the | State of Washington recently reversed, | in part, it's action of year ago, admit | ting to full fellowship members of ne gro lodges deriving their authority from | inc Grand Lodge of England. As ex plained by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the back track was taken because of the criticisms offered by various grand | lodges throughout the country, some of which had severed relations with the Washington body. The latter reaffirm- sd it's declaration of year ago, that it recognizes the equality of all men, and the right of any man of good repute and possessing the necessary qualifica- lions to become a Mason, but it repeal 7 .