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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-26

90 scr yard OF cotton cloth abroad, ard
tIit tic Chinese trade and all other for
c'en made would soon dwindic away.
We believe that Mr. j. \. Tompkins. Of
Norib Carolina. has discovered the solu-
uln o. the cotton problem. We believe
We .s Linn that the great hope Of tho South
s in cheap raw cotton. With an album.
dance Of raw material at such low
price A. 90 enable 0hc cotton factories OF
the South to undersel the world. there
IS no limit TO the south's trade ana the
,ir,o viii come when there viii be enough
mills I'm the South TO consume. not only
crop of 100000 bales. but crop Of
goe0m3 bales When that time shall
come the souths prosperity will be as
sured.
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The clergyman had finished ana the or
gan vyas pesline forth the sonorous rap-
ture OF the nfcndclssohn mircn.
zone moment. George. sAia lne IA
diant bride and facing me audience sho
raised her exquslteiy bound thonsn some
what bulky prayei ,.,,9ts5 il directly AZ
fho hr,IIi9nt audience. There was sharp
click
come along.
And AS they marched down the aisle
she shoved him that the supposed prayer
boo, wasn't a prayer-bcok at all. IL was
lis my own ldee. Georse. she whis-
pered Clever, isn't lt!'-CleSeland
PLATA Dealer.
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Il am thinking Of going into politics"
he said. thoughtfully
"What" exclaimed his wife.
eyes: some OF the party leaders have
been to me and they assure me that /
would be very strong man and almost
certain 10 be elected
John Henry" she said, you're worth
s. eoO.o'I. aren't your
Easily that
well you Just assign everything over
10 me and then 20 70 the party leaders
and tell them you've done II. and then 81
they still consider YOU a strong man and
Rant Aou u rua 1ag oaiea l Won't AAx Z.
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MINDED eh?" snaered the automobile.
as IL bowled past the old gray mare, which
had stopped 10 get he's breath.
But. almost simultaneously with tho
unkind words. one OF the puffed-uD tires
OF the automobile WIS punctured by a dis
carded hatpin that lay in the road.
Wheroupon the ola gray mare smiled
and spared enough breath 10 grasp mock
ingly- MINDED eh2
Which story IS told 10 snow that even
automobiles may i've u glass houses ana
throw stones brooklyn Lie.
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Pulling.

"That man Dom Paul always was ter
riblv hard TO get along with" remarked
the European diplomat.
"He seems 90 Doe simplicity itself
eyes. but he doesn't conform 10 the or
binary rules of diplomacy Whenever he
SAYS anything, he means every word Of
II "-Washingt0n star.
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IIisFavoritc.

ehe-Thcros nothing / like IN play so
much as love and patriotism. Nhal Is
your taste. Freddy
Hell have always thought Wen v ''e
soubrette.-Dotroit Free Press.
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Parlor Ornaments.

"Nhat tall mantels you have. Mrs.
JimD'
eyes. 7 want TO put my bric-a-nrac 10
so high that cant see whether Il Is dusty
or not. Chicago Record.
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Positively cured by these
Little Pills.

word. il is just as well for you to ma l,
ont at the start in what your strength
ins.n-ChlcaEo Post.
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CITY Councilman j. q. Reilly oil 'leNe-
land. Ohio. has fallen heir 90 fortune o.
$4,000
-Four wears ago. while in sap Antonio.
Texas. Nh. Reilly stopped runaway
team pr0bably saving the life of the
driver a. wealthy farmer of Palmer,
Texas named John Wallace. His arm
was So badly injured in The struggle mat
for "a time amputation was thought TO Poe
necessary. but eventually 30 healed.
ON Saturday Mr.. Reilly received notice
from san Antonio that Mr. Wallace had
died and left him legacy of 5000.
Amos Lunt. the hangman of San Quen-
tin prison. san Francisco, is a mental
wreck from insomnia and Authorizations.
He has not slept for nearly two weeks.
Every time he falls into a d0ze he see
the spirit of. some murderer whom he
hanged especially the ghost OF Durrant
who was hanged for the murder of a. girl
in church and whose case attracted so
much attention az the time.
From reports just sent in it is shown
that the Nebraska corn crop Of 1899 ox-
cceds that Of the best previous year by
14ei72;0 bushels. The crops this year
reaches the enormous figure of 2iAl25,G,
bushels.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21
ROOSEVELT and the Policemen.

1t will be remembered that a great deal
of laughing was done at Gov. Roosevelt S
expense, when, as police commissioner, he
included in his test for candidates desiring
appointment to 1.-The force" an examina-
ton on geography and United States his
tory, says the New York Mail and Elk
press. The smiles which this occasioned
were recalled by the Governor while he
was discussing civil service in the execu-
tive chamber the other day. He said good
many people could never understand what
use people was in quizzing a candidate for
appointment as policeman on geograph
or United States history. He explained
that it was not to find out what the can
didate knew of these subject but rather to
learn what he didn't know, that the much
ridiculed questions were asked.
AS a sample of one of the questions the
governor cited the following:
Name the New England states"
One of the written answers received was
as follows:
England, ireland, Scotland, Wales and
Cork
Another man substituted Belfast for
Cork and still another included Africa
The candidates were asked to tell what
they knew about Abraham Lincoln. One
man wrote that Abraham Lincoln was a
brave "ginraf' and eft" the battle of
Bunker Hill Another man wrote that Lin
coin was a good man, but he was killed
by Thomas Jefferson. Several identified
Lincoln as the leader of the Southern Con-
federacy, and several more had him killed
by either Quito, Garfield or Jefferson Da-
VS.
After telling these stories the Governor
paused. It's long time since his breath
was first taken away by the answers
al n he NIL,
contemplating them.
What then is the conclusion that the gov
ernor draws? Simply this, that any man
who can make such answers is not suf-
ficiently intelligent to be good New York
city cop"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21
AN INTERESTING FIGHT.

A fight between the municipal authori-
ties of New York and the Manhattan Ele-
waited Railway has been precipitated. As
to the underlying cause OF 1t there are
various explanations offered. One of them
is that the structure of the road has be.
come a public nuisance on one of the
parks. and that the management of the
road has not complied with the law with
respect to sanitary arrangements. An
other reason alleged is that certain parties
have been caught short of Manhattan
stock, and that they are sufficiently in
fuential with the municipal council to
have it come to their aid In breaking
down the price of the stock. Still an
other is that the company has declined to
make contracts aggregating in value some
100000 with certain favorites of Mr.
Croker for the proposed new motive power
equipment, and that steps have been taken
to coerce the company into complain ce
with the wishes of the political boss
Whatever may be the motive, il appears
that the facts of the case are about as
follows:
OOtlSlHAlS iliOiS IMAM twenty years ago
the Manhattan Elevated was permitted to
extend its line over Battery park. Since
that time the park has been developed
and popularzed. Tens of thousands OF
persons now pass under the elevated
structure the trains on which drop oil
water, waste and cinders on the people
below. The value to the people of the
park is thus greatly diminished. The road
held its right-of-way merely under a grant
of privilege by the park department, the
privilege to be revoked at the pleasure of
the department on six months notice Up
to this time. it seems, Notwithstanding
the annoyance caused by the road, nobody
has dared to call 1t to account Last
week, however, notice was served on
George Gould, president of the Manhattan
Elevated company, requiring the company
to remove its structure across Battery
park within six months
The company will. of course fight the
requirement, which, however, appears to
he strictly within the letter of the law.
The agreement between the park depart
ment and the company, whereby the ten
ure of the park might be terminated upon
six months notice, is absolutely binding,
ard was made with a full understanding
en- each side. The order of the park de-
pGrtment based on the allegation that il
is for sanitary reasons and the public
good generally, will have strong backing
in public sentiment. Meanwhile the out
come Is in doubt The company has al
RS service several barrels of money and
some of the brightest minds in the world,
and it may find a way to avoid compli-
ance with the order. The fight promises
to be Lively ard Interesting, let the out
come be what IL may
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21

The Philippines are not in need of pop
ulation. If what some OF the correspondents
say about them. 1t is evident that if
a new and more aggressive population
is to take possession of the Islands the
present inhabitants win have to be killed
off. The Filipinos are practically worth
less for the development of the country,
or for making more of 1t than is being
made at present. which is not much. The
Manila correspondent of the New York
Evening Post. speaking of the population,
says:
THE country is more thIckly populated
than any other country 1 was ever in.
Hardly square rod of ground is without
a nipa hut Every village overhows with
children, ragged, poverty-strlcken children,
covered with sores, but happy enough aft
er all in their barbaric ignorance. The
over-populatlon of LuZon leads one to
think that this Is not new country wait
ing for development. but rather an old
country, where a new race will succeed
only by showing out and crushing the old
one. Agricultural machines saving labor
would not benefit the native, for they
would merely throw a large per cent. of
the population out of work. Foreign
goods will find no market outside of Ma
Mia, for the country peasant, with his
primitive habits and absence of clothes,
has no civilized desires, and, even If he
had them, over-population would prevent
his satisfying them. These facts concern
the agricultural population, and not the
wild, wandering tribes in the hills. The
latter are as hopelessly beyond the posi-
bility of civilizing as the North Amert-
can Indians.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21
Nothing Like Red Tame.

1t is stated that one morning recently a
young fellow who had just secured a
clerkship in a government office was con-
siderably startled by a little scene that
he witnessed, says London Tit-Bits An
elderly man, one of the senior clerks In
dragged the comfortable chair on which he
had been sitting into the middle of the
room, seized a poker, and, attacking the
chair with great vigor, succeeded in
breaking one of its legs. When it was
done the official gave a sigh of relief and
flung the chair into a corner of the room.
The budding juniors first thought was
that his senior had suddenly taken leave
of his senses, and he almost expected
that his colleagues would put him under
restraint. But TO his establishment the
other clerks hardly raised their eyes while
the work of destruction was in progress.
Before the Office work was over the new
conner sought information from one of
his fellow clerks.
Can you tell me-" said he, "why Mr..
Dash carried on in that extraordinary
fashion? l mean, of course, when he
broke a perfectly sound leg off the chair
in which he had been sitting''
''Oh that was all right" replied The
other with meaning laugh. "A caster
had come off one of the legs of that chair
and, you know, my lords will not pro-
vide us with new casters; they will at
tend to nothing less than broken leg
So Dash had to break one of the legs in
order to get his chair put right at the
public expense"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21

1t is unfortunate that the Associated
Press dispatches gave credit TO Seaman
Screen" as the hero of the wreck of the
William Lawrence, since the poets have
begun to immortalize him in song. The
heros name in fact. is Grudgren-with
long e. Green" is not especially a poet
zeal name, sim it may be more easily as
simulated into rhyme than the other. The
only person who could make poetry Of
"Grudgren,' Richard Wagner is dead.
Nevertheless Sailor Grudgrens heroism
was an Inspiration and deserves all of the
good things that even the poets may say of
it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21
AGrTNALno A FIGuREHEAD.

If what Gen. Otis Is reported as saying
Is true Aguinaldo is only a fgurehead,
the tool OF a few shrewd Filipnos who
control affairs in the Philippines so far as
the Fnipinos control them. Aguinaldo, in
the opinion of Gen. Otis, is not so bad as
he is painted. The natives do not know
what they are fighting for. They have
been told that If the Americans get control
of the islands they will be more previously
oppressed than they were by the Span
iards Naturally they believe what Is
told them. There is no way in which the
truth can reach them. unless some Of the
educated Filipinos in whom they have
confidence come out boldly in favor of the
American cause.
1t will take long time to pacify the
islands unless the natives can be made to
understand the true situation of affairs.
The Filipino forces may be driven away
from the ports, but it will be difficult to
reach them in the interior. They can car
ry on a guerrilla warfare for a long time
with the resources at their command. The
hope of Gen. Otis for a speedy ending of
the war depends, it seems, on his ability
to prevent arms and ammunition from be-
ing conveyed to the insurgents. Without
the means to carry on even a guerrilla
warfare the leaders Of the Filipinos might
think it advisable TO cease their hostility
to American rule.
If there were any way in which the I'M
educated Filipinos could be made to under
stand what our purpose in regard to their
country is 1t is pretty certain that the war
would come to a speedy end. The men
who are leading them. however are TAX
Ing care that they shall not know the
truth. And, according TO Gen. Otis. all
of these leaders are not Finpinos. There
are among them American adventurers
and foreign scamps of every kind. II
would seem that what these leaders want
is money. They could. in all probability,
be bought off. But the trouble is that If
the buying-off process were once begun
it would have to be repeated many times.
That being the case it would be mistake
to adopt the policy which Spain adopted
in dealing with Aguinado
Under the circumstances there is only
one thing to do, and that is to prosecute
the war vigorously, and bring it to an
end as speedily as possible. But there is
one thing which Congress should do at
once, and that is pass a resolution max
ing it clear what our policy is In respect
to the Philippines The President says
that he has no desire that is antagonistic
to an independent government for the
Fiipinos, and several of the Republican
leaders have said the same thing. Why,
then, not let it be clearly understood that
the Filipinos are to have an independent
government just as soon as they are ready
for it? With such a policy declared the
people would be united in asserting our
authority in the hilippines-asserting 1t
for one purpose only, namely, giving the
FilipinOs self-goVernment.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21
THE s.EMBALMED BEEF'' INvEsTI-
CATION

From the best light obtainable on the
subject, we do not see how it is posi-
BILE for Gen. Miles to sustain the charge
which he has made relative to the beef
furnished to the army. Much, If not pref
ty nearly all, of the testimony which he
has to offer in support Of the charge Is
not germane to the issue. He charged
that both the refrigerated and canned
beef was doctored with chemicals, and
that it became not only offensive, but
that 1t poisoned the soldiers who ate 1t.
There is no doubt that much of the beef
which was furnished to the army was bad,
and it is certain that much of it was in
very offensive condition when 1t
reached the soldiers. There is TOO much
testimony to support that state of facts
60 admit of any question, but was the
meat chemically treated, and was it in
spoiled condition when it was delivered
to the government? May not the climate of
Cuba and Porto Rico have had much 10
do with causing the meat to spoil? Gen.
Miles will have to prove that the meat
was chemically treated and that 1t was
chemically treated meat which caused the
sickness among the soldiers. He was not
able to sustain his charge before the COM
mission which Investigated the conduct
of the war, and the outlook is that he
will not have so much latitude before the
court of inquiry as he had before the COM
mission.
There is no doubt that there Is a good
deal of sympathy for Gen. Miles on ac-
count of the treatment he received from
the war department during the war with
Spain. Although the commander of the
army, he had very little to do with COM
handing 1t. Adjt. Gen, Corbin exercised
far more influence in army matters than
did the commanding general. In fact, the
adjutant general practically mapped out
the campaigns. gave the orders and die
tated many of the appointments. Gen.
Miles was side-tracked as far as At was
possible to side-track him. Naturally he
felt aggrieved, and probably talked a
great deal more than he would if he had
been in entire harmony with the admins
tration. II may be his fault that he was
not appreciated by the President and the
war department when the war with Spain
began. If that is the case he is not en-
titled TO much sympathy in the trouble
in which he appears to have got himself.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21


Notwithstanding the brilliancy and YER
satility of the French people, and the Eng
fish speaking peoples also, they have fail
ed to add to their languages one detail
which is sadly needed 1t may be called
the 'shrug point in punctuation, to be
used as the interrogation point and the ex-
clamation point are used. The shrug, as
everybody who knows a Frenchman, or
has read a French novel, or has ever
heard of either Frenchman or French
novel is perfectly well aware Of. is char
acteristic, unavoidable and Indispensable
French method of expressing a sentiment
or an opinion. Under present circum-
stances when a writer comes to the proper
place, In dialogue or description, for the
shrug to come in, he must go to the trouble
to write, with a shrug of his shoulders, Z"
or something to that effect How much
easier, simpler, more concise it would be
to have some sort of a mark to put just
there to show that he shrugged his should
ers. We have marks TO Indicate a ques-
ton, or an exclamation of grief. or aston
ishment; why should we not also have a
mark to Indicate the shrug?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21

Senator Frye's plan to have cable laid
to the Philippines, by way of Honolulu
and Guam, is as simple as falling off
log. 1t is to the effect that the govern
ment shall subsidize private corporation
to the extent of 100000 year for twenty
years. with the following provisos: That
the line to Hawaii shall be completed and
in operation by July /, 1900 and to Manila
by Jan. 1, 1901; that government messages
shall be transported without ton at all
times; that in the event of war the gov
eminent may take charge Of the line, and
in certain contingencies become its owner.
The senator says that by this plan the
government could get a cable for $1,000, 900
The hearts of Republican congressman are
beating warm for subsidies these. days.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21

posed in the Wisconsin Legislature. 1t is
directed against the habit of lacing the
feminine form with corsets. Representa-
tive Daggett of Bear Creek says that the
custom is physically injurious, not only to
the present generation, but to posterity,
and that, therefore, it is within the prov
ince of the legislature to abolish it, The
matter, he thinks, comes within the police
power of the state. When he has got his
corset bin made into law, Representa-
tive Daggett should give some attention to
tight shoes. There can be no doubt that
there is incomparably more Of human mis-
there is from unrequited love.