The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-27
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| no one would ever take to its use. Then
| ne urges why not instead of coloring
| perfuming, and making this poison pop
| ular, bring UP the new generation to the
/ use of drugs known to the medical profess
| sion which would be equally agreea BILE
| and generous in their effect, and not half
| so dangerous? This is the most sgnih-
| cant suggestion that one has even heard
| France is preparing her new postage
stamp, which is to be a memorial of the
| Exhibition, says the London News The
| day 1t opens to the public, that stamp for
| 10, 10, 20, % and 80 centimes will be on
/ sale and in use all over the republic. Not
that new stamp was wanted. The now
| current stamps of the republic are prob
ably the best designed in the world, and
| there was no need to change them. 1t is
| not as If the label showed the head of the
| President, as in the case of America, or
| OF sovereign, as in empires and king
| doms. The design was unsuggestve of
| date and independent of time, so long as
| the republic lasted. But the Exhibition
| is to make much that was old obsolete.
| The new stamp will show the republic,
| seated figure, holding a tablet, on which
| is written: "Droits de Thomme.' On
| cartouche wreathed with laureis, will
be inscribed the value of the stamp, and
| the legend "Republique Franchise will
| be read underneath. It will be interest
| ing to see the new issue, which might
| give us hint for the new foreign post
| card stamp. Our own is the worst de-
| signed and the leest effective of all those
| in circulation throughout the Postal I'm
| ion.
| The diamond cutters of Antwerp are
in sad straits on account of the ces-
| sation of their business Some families
| are already selling their last articles of
| furniture. The master cutters are unable
| To come to their relief, Is they them
| selves are suffering from loss of trade.
| Among the manufacturers and brokers
| business is absolutely closed. At AM
| sterdem large carts go about collecting
| provisions and clothing for the impover-
| ished families 1t is now estimated that
over 100000 individuals are directly af-
| fected by the shutdown. Although the
diamond cutter earned high wages the in
termittent character of the work did not
| enable him to provide for emergencies, so
| abject misery has followed the present
| crisis, caused by the war in South Afri-
| ca. Unfortunately, the public seems in
| different to all this suffering probably
| from the fact that the diamond industry
does not appeal to the masses. Hence
| the relief committees have not been able
| to obtain the support they require. Many
merchants, however, are opening their
| houses twice daily to allow a certain
number of the poverty-stricken to partake
| OF dinner and supper. The outlook is
extremely dark, as there is no hope of
| relief until the end of the war. The dia-
mond merchants fear that if the war shall
last much longer they win be unable to
| hold out.
If the real results of the invention of
long-range rifles says the Spectator, have
only been discovered by our officers in the
| present war no one can be surprised how
ever unpleasant the discovery In the
| Franco-Prussian war the needle gun was
| n nov I'LL
| French had not time to discover the pow
ers of the chassepot before they We're
beaten. In the war of 1877, though 1900
Turks intreuched at Gorny Dubnik beat
of division of the Russian Guards, neith-
| Russians nor Turks were in any sense
marksnen, and Plevna and the. Schipka
| Pass were defended, not by good shoot
ing, but by quick shooting. 1t was the
rapid-hring breech action, not the long
| ranging bullet, which slew its thousands
on either side. The Beers on the other
| hand, have so entirely realized the altered
| conditions caused by the extension of the
range of fire of their weapons that a cor
| respondent of the Pail Mall Gazette states
| that one in every four of these farmers
carries a good field glass slung over his
| shoulder In preparing either to attack
or defend position the Boer does not
| rely on mere eyesight. He brings his
| sight up to the improved standard of his
| gun by the aid of machinery, the owners
OF the neld glasses coaching in their turn
| those who have none, as TO the point be-
| yond the range of clear vision at which
they are to aim.
| "A curious chapter might be written by
any historian who would take the trouble
to delve among the government records
and make a list of the laws bearing per-
| sonal names, with notes on their actual
| authorship. There are, for instance the
| Thurman funding act affecting the Pa
| cihc railroads; the Edmunds act making
| polygamy crime; the Matthews resolu-
| ton, as to redeeming bonds In silver; the
Sherman resumption act. the Pendleton
| act, 90 reform the ofvil service, and the
| Walker, Morrill,. Mckinley, Wilson Cor
man and Dingley tariff acts among 9th
ers which have been nicknamed with a
| decent regard for historical accuracy. But
| there are also some fragrant examples of
perversion such as the Bland silver act
the Sherman silver act, and the Sherman
| antitrust act. Mr.. Bland was not guilty
| of, and always publicly repudiated, the
| authorship of the so-called Bland silver
act His bill free coinage measure
pure and simple, and 1t was not until this
had passed the House, gone to the Senate
and fallen into the hands Of Senator ALI
son, that the idea of periodical government
| purchases of specific amounts of silver en-
! tered anybody's head. Nothing was fur
| Their from BANDS programme, and the
/ IiOuS0 ouoHlltSu " IL only WnSn IL dlS-
covered that il could not get anything
more radical Bland was never reconciled
! to the turn things took; he predicted the
| ignominious failure of the Allison substi-
tute, and lived to see his prophecy real
| lied.
Prof Paasche of Bremen, an authority
on the sugar industry, recently made a
trip through the United States and the
| West Indies TO study the conditions of
that business in the Western Hemisphere.
He says: Whatever the Americans be-
| gin is undertaken on a large scale and
with powerful means. Everything is grand
with them. America is our most danger
GUS competitor, and is rapidly becoming
an industrial state well worth consider
ing in our future negotiations for a COM
mercial treaty. AS to Jamaica, England
has neglected this once prosperous island.