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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16
PERSONAL.

Emile lola expresses his deep sympa-
thy with Maitre Labor, who has. been so
boycotted because of his part in the Drey-
fus case, and in recent inte. view urS
ed that every possible support and aid
be given to the brave lawyer.
Frederick P. Spauding of Bethlehem.
Pa who has been appointed professor of
civil engineering in the University of Mis-
souri,, was graduated from Lehigh Uni
versity in 1880. He was instructor at Cor
nell University for seven years, and later
returned to Lehigh University for two
years as instructor. He then entered the
field of practical engineering
The details of the ceremonies at the
unveiling of the Vance statue in the Cap
itol Square Of Raleigh, ~. c., on Aug. %,
have all been arranged. Thomas S. Ke-
nan will be chief marshal The state
Guard is invited through the adjutant
general, the Confederate Veterans
through their commander, and the editors
in The state also receive a special invi-
tation. The orator of the day will be
Richard II. Battle, who during the Civil
War was Governor Vances private secre-
tary.
Mr.. Traves, the great English surgeon,
in his lecture to medical students at the
opening of the new club rooms in the
London Hospital the other day, said that
genius was some form CT neurosis, an un-
tabulated nervous disease. The few per
sons of genius he had known had been
exceedingly impossible persons and if
there was one profession where genius
was out of place it was the medical pro-
fession The thing which in that stood
above all else was hard work, and one
very peculiar faculty, that of close OBJ
serVa ton.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16

Under the terms of an order issued by
Gen. Young on June 10. all Filipinos in
Northern Luzon must not only be pro-
vided with a certificate of registration,
but are forbidden to travel from place TO
place without written pass issued by
the local authority. Is that what the Re-
publican administration calls benevolent
assimilation?' The probabilities, how
ever, are that the natives pay little at
tention to the order except in the imme-
date vicinities of the garrsoned posts.
This is indicated by the great activity of
small bands or insurgents in all parts of
the territory held by the American army
In Leyte, Samar and Panay as told in
our dispatches of yesterday, the insur-
ents come and go at pleasure, and contn-
ually harass the small garrisons, using
smokeless ammunition in their SHIPPING
and ambushing operations
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16
THE STANDARD BALE MOVEMENT.

The arguments in favor of resembling
the rule of The Cotton Exchange which
discriminates against the irregular cot
ton bale. advanced by some of the mem
bers of the Exchange appear 10 be good
ones. 1t is important that the standard
bale-the 24-54 bale-shall be generally
adopted, but II is hardly fair to expect
Savannah to bear the whole burden of
bringing about the reform in the South
Atlantic section. If the rule is insisted
upon it is thought that Savannah viii
lose considerable cotton this season,
and until the standard ba'e is very gen.
orally adopted
The ports which are the rivals of Sa-
vannah would like to see the rule in ques-
ton enforced, but they do not seem to
be willing to assist in enforcing it. They
know it would be better for all concerned
if all the square bales were made in ac-
cordance with the standard measurement.
Why they will not lend helping hand,
therefore, in effecting the reform, is one
of the things that are hard to explain 1t
may be that they think that If Savan-
will get more cotton, believing that the
owners of irregular bales will avoid Sa-
vannah rather than pay the penalty for
which the rule provides.
There is no doubt that exporters prefer
the square bale 10 the round bale, because
it enables them 10 know what kind of
cotton they are buying, but if the square
bale Is to ho.d it's place in the cotton
trade it must be constructed in accord
ance with the standard measure.
The irregular bale costs more to handle,
both on the cars and on the ships, and
there is no good reason why the standard
bale should not be made at every ginnery.
The cost of changing the boxes is so small
that it is hardly worth considering.
And it is to the interest of the farmers
that the square bale shall hold its place
in the cotton business. Whatever may be
the meri of the round bale it would not
be a good thing for the farmers for one
company to control the means by which
the entire cotton crop is baled. Having
secured a monopoly such a company
might want to exact greater toll than
the farmers would be willing to pay.
very large percentage of the cotton
boxes have been changed to the standard
bale dimensions. To get the remainder of
them changed would il not be advisable
to offer a small premium for cotton put
up in standard bales? That suggestion has
been made by one of the members of the
-
atty on irregu ar bales would have a ten
dency to force to other ports cotton that
legitimately belongs here. premium for
the standard bale would influence cotton
in this direction. No doubt the whole mat
ter will be given very careful consider
alton as soon as a sufficient number of
the members of the Exchange return from
their vacations to justify a meeting of
that body on so important a matter.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16
The Antics of "Bobs" on the Dead
Line.

The Antics of "Bobs" on the Dead
Line.
The spectacle Of Lord Roberts, shrivel-
ed and seventy, plunging into the smoke
and struggle in South Africa and emery
ing with 1.-THE garter in one hand and a
duke dom in the other, is exhilerating and
suggestive in view of the "dead-line-at-
nifty" discussion, says the Saturday Even
ing Post. Roberts, as an old man, who
had fought his battles and won his med
ais, who had all to lose and onthing to
gain, stayed at home during the early
weeks of the war. And younger fighters.
Methuen and Butler, set out on the search
for easy glory. What they got is painful
history of England.
Roberts al kitchener-the younger man
was expected to do the big thingS-were
sent out as an eleventh-hour hope. For
a few weeks Kitcht ner's picture doomed
large in the papers; then he dropped out
Of sight. And in the end it was Lord
ROBBERS, twenty years past the dead-line,
who fought out the war.
1t is futile to lay down general laws;
folly to apply them to individuals. Yet the
dead-line-at-fifty heresy has been accept
ed as gospel by so many people that ii
is worth following up, with 'Bobs'' as a
beacon. Undoubtedly there is a dead line.
Some men have already I9ssed it at thir-
ty; others never reach 1t till they follow
a clergyman feet first out of church.
A young business man is naturally in
touch with the new methods that revo-
lutionize trade every few years in these
rapid times; but the older one who keeps
up with them is his equal and his supe
rior by the weight of his added expert
ence. For the professional man whose
study lamp sill burns, fifty lis but a
milestone on the read to greater power.
And for him there is always something
to be won and a new way to win it if
the cd one will not do. At seventy he is
learning and planning and executing. He
is climbing ices. like Gen. Wheeler, to
see what the enemy is up to- or drum
ming up wheat, like Mr.. Armour, to freeze
cut the other younsster; or planning a
great home rule programme like that
lively octogenarian, the late MIR. Glad
stone. The ability to see new conditions
and to meet them is the secret of youths
power in the world to-day. And so long
as a man has that ability, the years count
for nothing, You can draw dead line
behind him, but you can't catch and push
him over IL.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16

Jerry Simpson of Kansas, who sockless
and irrepressible leaped TO the pedestal
of notoriety from the crest of the wave
of populism which swept over his state
some years ago, is now at the front as
the original shirt-waist politician. He is
making his campaign coatless and cool
as to his corporal being, however hot
may be the political stuff which he fires
at his hearers. 1t is said that Jerry has
received from Chicago haberdasher a
dozen fancy shirt waists of all coors and
combinations of colors, and that it is his
purpose to appear in these, uncovered by
coat or waistcoat during the remainder
of his stumping tour. Being himself a
fad, it is impossible for Jerry to violate
the proprieties.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16

At the Sing Sing On. W prison the
lock-etep for convicts has been abolished
and the military march substituted. Ex-
perts in penology have long condemned
the iock-step, because having been once
acquired. st marks a man for life and
proclaims him an eX-convict wherever
he may so after leaving prison. Not only
does the lock-step gait proclaim an ex-
convicts antecedeuts to strangers, hut it
keeps him always in mind OF the
fact that he has been in dis
grace and that the disgrace is
known to all who see him. Since
one great purpose of modern penology Is
20 give an ex-convict another chance in
life, the abolition of the lock-step is look
ed upon as an act of humanity.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16

Chicago sneak thieves are working
shrewd campaign game. They operate in
self into a campaign orator and spouts
red-hot politics from a cart or a curb
stone. While he is stirring up enthusiasm
by expounding the theory of good gov
eminent and denouncing tyranny and cor
ruption, his confederates are operating
among the crowd and in the adjacent
houses. So common has the orator thief
become that the chief of police has issued
instructions to his men to keep a close eye
on all street political gatherings.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16
GOLD EXPORTS.

The movement of gold to Europe ex-
cites no alarm in financial circles. Ac-
cording to our dispatches SS,0OO,OO0 was
shipped yesterday. and the shipments
last week were large.
Gold would not be going from this coun-
try to Europe if $4,000, 900 had not been
subscribed 20 the recent British loan. II
is the understanding that this country
does not owe anything in Europe now. 1t
has paid all of its debts abroad and is
prepared to loan to European govern
ments.
There was some complaint in London
that the British government placed so
large a part of it's recent loan of $50O0O,-
COO in this country. But it could not help
itself. The Bank of England was in need
of gold, and the only source of supply at
a reasonable rate was the United States
There is an abundance of gold in this
country. The United States treasury has
a greater supply than it has had at any
previous time in many years. The banks
have all they need; in fact more than
they care to have. Nobody wants gold
now that 1t can be had for the asking
All the indications are that the United
States will soon be the great creditor ma
ton of the world. For the year ending
June 30 last their exports exceeded their
imports nearly $500, 900, 600. There is no
reason to doubt that the excess of ex-
ports this year will be greater than that
of last year In fact, there is bound TO
be steady increase in the excess of the
exports. That being the case, it cannot
be otherwise than the United States will
become the creditor of most of the other
commercial nations.
London has been the money center of
the world so dong THAI she feels a little
sore at the prospect of losing her SUI
premacy in that particular. The time has
come however, when Great Britain must
take second place in both commerce and
finance. The first place belongs to the
United States. New York. if she is not
already. will, in the very near future, be
the financial center of the world.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16
HARMONY DEPENDS on MIR. BRYAN.

What a remarkable change in the atti-
tude of the New York Democracy toward
Mr.. Bryan has taken place within the
last four years! In the campaign of 1896
it's leaders had very little regard for him
Now he is popular with the leaders
and the rank and file of the party that
it is thought that he alone has sufficient
influence with the warning factions of the
party to settle the differences between
them which threaten to destroy whatever
chances the Democracy has for carrying
the state for both the state and the ma
tional tickets.
Mr.. Mcclure. the chairman of the Dem
ocratic State Executive Committee, and
Mr.. Campbell. the chairman of the Dem
ocratic State Committee have written TO
Mr.. Bryan asking him to come 10 New
York and see what he can do to get Mr..
Croker to cease his opposition to the
nomination of Mr.. Co!er for Governor. In
their letters to him they say that I'M
less the differences between the factions
are adjusted, and Mr.. Coler is nominated,
the chances are that the Republicans will
carry the state both for the state and
the national tickets.
In their opinion the nomination of Mr..
Coler would be worth $4,000 votes to the
national ticket of the Democratic party
in New York. Mr.. Bryan may I'M
der AXE the role of peace maker in New
York, but if he does he is going TO en-
counter difficulties which will be difficult
to overcome. MIR. Croker is strongly
against the nomination of Mr.. Coler He
knows Mr.. Golfer is not friend of Tam
many, and Mr.. Croker's main purpose is
to take care of Tammany. Besides, Mr..
Croker regards the effort to nominate Mr.
Coer for Governor as move on the part
of Mr.. Hill 10 weaken Tammany's power
and influence. The situation is a very COM
pick one. The whole country is interest
ed in it, because the success of the DEM
ocratic national ticket may depend upon
the way in which it is adjusted.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16

Chairman Butler OF the Populist Ma
tional Committee is in favor of nomi-
mating a Populist TO go on the Popullst
ticket with Bryan, and not accepting
Stevenson. Butler is evidently looking
out for himself, and not for the good of
the reforms which he processes to sup
port. He fears. no doubt, that the with
drawal of Towne and the acceptance of
Stevenson would mark the beginning of
The absorption of the Populist party into
the Democracy; and that would mean loss
of power and influence to Butler. II is
very improbable, however, that Chairman
Butler will be able to control abe full
committee and prevent the substitution
on the Populist ticket Of Stevenson's
name for TONNES. Mr.. Towne is man
of far more ability, magnetism and pa
triotism than Butler. and the probabili-
lies are that the committee will follow
the lead of the Minnesota man in prefer
ence to that of the discredited North Car
Gilman.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16

A commercial traveller now in this city,
who has noticed the discussion of the
proposition of person living on fifteen
cents day for meals. writes to the Morn
ing News as follows: Last week / took
four very good meals with the Ruskin
Colony people IN South Georgia., and
was Informed that their yearly average
is at the rate of 81 cents per meal, or less
than cents per day. This is not a squirt,
but goes on from years end to year
end. and their living is ahead of that en-
joyed by the average farmer" This is,
indeed. cheap living, and the Rusknites
are to be congratulated upon having solv-
ed the problem.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16

The report of vital statistics of the chief
sanitary officer of Havana for the month
of July contains some interesting infor-
nation. 1t appears, among other things,
that yellow fever is far from extinct in
that city. there having been thirty deaths
from that disease during the month They
have some old people in Havana, as wei
as elsewhere. During the month there
were four deaths between the ages of so
and 30, and two between 80 and 100. The
highest mean daily temperature for July
was SO degrees; considerably less warm
than it was i'm many cities on the main
land of much higher latitude There were
S77 immigrants from Spain, but none from
the United States. The death rate con-
tinues in excess of the births, the excess
Of deaths for the month being 1853. The
greatest death rate was among children
under one year old. In a population of
PAP ,O55 there were seventy-six marriages
during the thirty-one days. There were
more deaths from consumption than any
other disease.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16

The Cincinnati school board has deter
mined not to purchase any maps of At
RIGA and Asia this year. II had been the
purpose to supply the schools with new
set of physical and political maps during
the coming fall but the board has decid-
ed to await the outcome of current af-
fairs in South Africa and China before
expanding a considerable sum for maps
which might become obsolete before they
had fairly got into use. II is practically
certain that the boundaries Of the South
African states will have to be revised as
an outcome of tne war. and It may be
that the same win be true OF China I;
hence the Cincinnati school board pro-
poses 20 save money by waiting until the
Sighting is over before buying new maps
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16

The first annual reunion and encamp-
ment of the National Associa ton of Span
ish-American war veterans will be he'd in
Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. s to u, inclu-
sive. An attractive programme will be
arranged, and it is promised that there
will be hot time in the old town on
that occasion
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16

Webster Davis will not be able 20 make
the Boer war an issue in the campaign
in this country, but he may be able to
show from it what British imperialism
leads to in cost of money and lives to the
British people. and injustice to liberty
seeking peoples in other sections of the
globe
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16
The weather.

The indications for Georgia to-day are
for local rains in the interior, with light
southeasterly winds. and for Eastern
Florida generally fair weather, with
light TO fresh southeasterly winds.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16
MERCHANTS AND MINERS
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SAVANNAH TO BALTIMORE.
Tickets on sale at companys offices to
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BALTIMORE, MD. BUFFALO, N. Y.
BOSTON, MASS.
CHICAGO, ILL. CLEVELAND, o.
ERIE, PA.
HAGERSTOWN. HARRISBURG, PA
HALIFAX, N. s
NIAGARA FALLS. NEW YORK.
PHILADELPHIA
PITTsBURG. PROVIDENCE.
ROCHESTER,
TRENTON. WILMINGTON.
WASHINGTON.
First-class tickets include meals and
state room berth, Savannah to Baltimore,
Accommodations and cuisine unequaled.
Freight capacity unlimited; careful han
ling and quick dispatch.
The steamships of this company are ap-
pointed to sail from Savannah to Balti-
more as follows STANDARD time):
TEXAS, Capt Eldridge, THURSDAY.
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D. H. MILLER, Capt. Peters SATUR-
DAY, Aug. 49, at u noon.
ITAsCA, Capt. Diggs. TUESDAY. Aug.
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ALLEGHANY, Capt Fostor, THURS
DAY, Aug. 49, at 400 p. m.
TEXAS, Capt. Eldridge, SATURDAY,
Aug. %, at 500 p. m.
And from Baltimore Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays at AGO p. m
Ticket Office, 80 Bull street.
NEwcoMB COHEN, Tray. Agent
]. J. CAROLAN, Agent,
Savannah, Ga.
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16

There are some seven or eight third
parties in the campaign this year. And
one of them is about as dangerous as an
other to the success of either of the great
parties.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-16
CURRENT COMMENT,

The Washington Post Qnd) says: ''In
the three years during which Mr.. Nc
Kinley has been President the enormous
sum of s420,C0o,OOo has been paid to pen
sioners, and to this fact the Republican
managers point with pride 1t seems to
us however, that this showing. together
with the further fact that from july l
1865, to June 90 1850, the payments for
pensions and expenses connected with
thoss payments aggre gated 50, 100000 600,
will be apt to awaken the coun ry to the
drain which the pension fund makes uDou
the national treasury. Even now a third
of a century after the close of the war,
there are 1913 go pensioners on the roll
We hope they are all honestly entitled to
the gratuity which the government siyes
them. but we confess to the belief that a
wedding out of the pension list would not
do injustice to any honest pensioner and
might save money for the government
TIE pension roll has always been used
political adjunct, but never quite so
flagrantly as in the present instance.
Some good will be accomplished, how
ever, If the wide publicity which is be-
ing given to the Republican National Com
mittee's campaign document brings about
an awakening and reform"
The Chicago Chronicle Dem) saws:
"One of the beauties of the injunction sys-
tenn is manifest in the case of the tele-
graph company which is enjoined by one
court to cease serving grain quotations.
and is enjoined by another court TO keep
on serving them. The company's officials
are likely 10 get into Jail whichever court
they obey. This, taken in connection with
the fact that anyone with 50 bill can
secure an injunction against anybody do
ing anything. Is calculated to make peo-
pie think that there may he something in
the talk of government by injunction af-
ter ALL"
The Baltimore Sun (Dem) says: Ger
tsinly the experience of the Southern
states with the black race ought to make
all thoughtful men oppose the Republican
plan 10 annex and absorb 10000. 900 brown
skicned people OF an alien race Tee issue
of imperialism will nor be dropped in this
campaign because of threats to punish the
South for eliminating the ignorant negro
vote. The South, indeed, will ontlnue to
oppose imperialism in the Philippines as
well as in it's own affairs ard will not
be deferred by threats from Republican
sources"
The Greenville Is c. News CDem) de-
clines to differentate between the coored
races. Everything that Isn't white must
be black 1t says: The recruiting office in
Savannah has received orders TO enlist
negroes for service in The Philippines. II
would be a good idea for the government
TO use as many negroes as possible this
way. Then il would be a war of negroes
on both Sides"