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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29
THn oAPruRE oF AeurNALpo.

Does the capture of Aguinaldo, the
chief of the Filipinos, mean the end of
the instruction in the Philippines? There
are reasons for thinking it does.
For several months the insurgents have
shown but little activity. Gradually the
Filipino chiefs have been surrendering.
Indeed. organized opposition to American
authority ceased quite a long time ago.
About the only warfare on the part of
the Filipinos since Gen. Macarthur took
command of the islands has been of a
guerilla character. 1t has been waged
against the inoffensive natives rather
than against the Americans-against The
natives because they were inclined to ac-
cept American rule.
The Filipino representative in this
country who has been delivering lectures
in Philadelphia and other cities and who
is at present in Boston in conference with
the Anti-Imperialistic League, says that
the capture of Aguinaldo will not dis
hearten liberty-lovng Filipinos. and that
the fight for independence will go right
on just as if Aguinado were still at the
head of the Filipino cause. 1t was to be
expected that he would present that view
of the situation to the American public.
Still, very few of those who have kept
themselves informed of current events in
the Philippines will credit him being sin
cere. He knows that the bottom dropped
out of the insurrecton long ago, and that
Aguinaldo has been the inspiration of the
,-1,,.r ,t-o g.l,
have kept the Island of Luzon in a state
of turmoil in recent months. Now that
Aguinaldo has been captured, the rem
nants of the opposition will disappear,
and the work of esta blishing civil gov
eminent in the islands will be pushed
forward with renewed vigor and with
much greater success than has been the
case heretofore.
The first question that arises in con-
nection with the capture of the Filipino
chief is, What is the best thing to do
with him? No doubt there will be a va
riety of suggestions. Some perhaps will
advise that he be courtmartialed and shot
and others will suggest that he be made
the head of the civil government, hold
ing that such magnanimous treatment
would make him loyal to the United
States and that as the governor of the
islands he would exert a powerful in
huence in bringing about satisfactory re-
lations between them and the United
States. The chances are that he will not
be treated with cruelty or with any great
amount of consideration. If he should be
banished to the Island of Guam TO keep
company with some other distinguished
Filipinos who found it impossible to rec
oncile themselves to American rule, it is
probable that the people of this country
would be very generally pleased and those
of the Philippines would not complain.
He would not, of course, be kept there
permanently, but only until the Philip
pines were entirely pacified and the Fill
pinos had time to understand that the
government the United States had given
them was better than that of Spain, or
that Aguinaldo and his assistants could
give them.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

while 1 was over in the Arkansas
mountains last winter on hunting trip
my guide and came across a sugar ma
pie orchard where two men were collect
ing and boiling down the sap" said a
Memphis man, according to the Scimitar
I'VE sat around with the natives awhile
and ate maple sugar. When we started
to leave one of the men, who had been
regarding my tie very closely, asked the
guide, in a low voice, why 1 wore that
rag around my neck.
That's to keep his nose from bleed
ing replied the guide, who was a man
of some humor.
LAS We walked away 1 heard the ma
tives telling each other how sorry they
fet for me on account of my affliction."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

For years and years statue has stood
in a conspicuous place In the town of
Danielson, Conn.,, near a public fountain.
Everybody regarded it as work OF art,
and nobody thought it immodest. A few
days ago. however, Cyclone Taylor the
Tornado Evangelist" struck Danielson
and Immediately began preaching against
the statue. lie could see no art in it.;
nothing but vulgarity and suggestiveness,
and he taxed the people Of the town with
immortality because they permitted che
statue to be exposed in public place. 1t
is wonderful how much wickedness some
''reformers'' can find where none existed
until they drew attention to 1t.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

The stupidity Of servants is a trial to
the most even-tempered mistress, but it
sometimes serve to amuse the other men,
bers of the household, says the London
King. There was a girl who belonged to
the familiar category of children and
FOOLS
IF anyone should call this afternoon,
Mary, say that l am not well," said a
mistress to newly engaged servant. I'm
afraid l ate a little too much of that
rich pudding for dinner, and it, or some
thing else. has brought on a severe head
ache. l am going to lie down."
A few moments later. the mistress, from
her room az the head of the stairs, heard
Mary say to two aristocratic ladies who
called for the first time:
"Yes'm, Mrs. B is at home, but she
ate so much pudding for dinner she had
to go to bed"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

The story sent out from Washington
the other day that a young woman, Miss
Clara craecen. had been made legal ad-
wiser to the Secretary OF the Treasury.
IS erroneous. But It is true that Miss
craecen has been promoted to law clerk
ship in the Office of the Controller of the
Currency, a position that pays 81. 800 per
annum. Seven years ago the young wo-
man entered the government service. from
Michigan. as stenographer During her
spare time she studied law and attended
q night school Her work as a aenog-
rapher aided her greatly IN her studies.
since che had 10 take dictatlon embrae-
Inc many legal matters. When she up
plie0 20 the District OF Columbia courts
Tor aomiasion 20 the bar she passed her
esamination with high credit Her pro-
mo'ioa shows what . brainy ana ambi.
Ness y0ung women may %.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

There is no accounting for the fads of
millionaires. Mr.. Carnegte's fancy runs to
public Libraries. Mr.. Whitney's to horses,
Mr.. vanderbilt's to yachts, and so on.
Pierpont Morgan's fad. it seems, is his
toric antique furniture. A Paris cable
says he has just bought through wer-
theimer-the same man who is suing lit
tie Boni Castellane--a dressing case with
two drawers for 600. The piece is said
to be rather ordinary looking, but 1t is
dated 1907 and signed with the name of
a fashionable maker of that period. 1t
is supposed to have belonged to the Or
leans family.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Ledger Qnd) says: "a
Cleveland shoddy manufacturer, in a let
ter to the American Wool Reporter. says
that 125, 900 900 pounds OF shoddy, equiva-
lent to $4,000 900 pounds of wool in the
grease. are used annually in the United
States on the assumption that the Ameri-
can production of wool is 800, 900 pounds
annually. it would appear that more
shoddy than wool enters into the social
ed woollen clothing of the American peo-
pie. ." The high tariff on wool con-
strained the manufacturers to use infe-
rior grades of wool, harsh In character
and POOR in staple, and to literally adul-
terate with shoddy American ingenuity
found O way to use cotton in mixed goods
to an extent unprecedented. The nat
ural effect of this was prejudicial to the
interests OF the wool grower. while The
consumer suffered because his garments
lacked in warming and wearing qualities"
The New York Tribune (Rep) says:
Japan speaks out plainly, like nation
that has found itself and has the cour-
age of its convictions. It cares not. says
its Foreign Minister, what strained and
imaginative constructions other Powers
may put upon treaties. Japan will in
terpret them according TO the dictates Of
common sense. and will thus govern ac-
ton upon them. That is tone worthy
of a great Power that, as Bismarck said
Of Germany, fears nothing but Cod"
The ST. Paul (Minn.) Globe (Dem) says:
las general proposition any native
born American. black or white. who can
not read the English language should not
be allowed to vote. He has not the need
ful intelligence. He has had the oppor-
tunity 10 acquire az least the rudiments
OF an English education, and n he has
not made good his opportunity he should
bear the penalty. He Is on principle
man against whom society needs protec-
ton"
The Springfield (Mass) Republican, Ind
says THE Supreme Court Is taking
plenty OF time 10 form 4 judgment ia the
Porto Rica and Philippine masses. Weeks
have passed and continue 10 i,nss since
the matter vas argued The decision
when % comes. must certainly bear the
appearance ~ having been reached
through great elaboration"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

So Mulai Abdul Aziz need not crawl
into his bomb-proof. after all. The bluff
drawn. and the ship ordered to sail for
Manila. Mr.. Consul Gummere villa not
have the pleasure of interviewing the
Sultan of Morocco and telling him he
must pay those claims, amounting to
$4,000, Or" the dash being supplied
with a jerking of the thumb over the
shoulder in the direction of the warship.
A heart-to-heart talk between Muley and
Dummy would no doubt have afforded
some interesting reading. But it is not
20 be. John Hays diplomacy DEGREES
otherwise.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

Seventeen years ago Charles washburn.
aged twenty-four. was hurt in a railroad
wreck in Chicago. The injury was TO his
head. After being in the hospital a while
he was discharged. He went TO Allie
ghany, Pa, where he married. and has a
family Of four children. few days ago
he received a fright and fall. Upon re-
covering he began to ask about the Chi
cago wreck, and whether he was much
hurt. He denied that he has ever seen
his wife before, and asked If she was the
hospital nurse. In short his last shock
has knocked the memory of seventeen
years Of his life out of his brain, and sent
him back to the time Of the wreck. The
doctors cali the complaint amnesIa.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

New Hampshire seems 70 possess strong
attractions for Rudyard Kipllng lie met
and married his wife there. and for some
time had a home near Brattleboro. Then
he had o quarrel with his brother-in-law.
and sold out his New Hampshire prop
erty and went 10 ENGLAND 90 reside per
manontly Now Il is understood that he
Las purchased a place near his former
residence. and VIII erect house upon DO
which, DO win occupy a. least a. a sum
mcr home
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29
Reflections of a Bachelor.
From the New York Press

A mans mind is an intelligence. a wo-
mans Is an lntelligence-oiice
. on every page OF q girls diary love IL
most as biz a. the map OF Asia.
no man has any charity for another
man unless be has finned the same way
himself and no woman has any charity
for another woman unless she hasn't
Probably Noah's wife always Insisted
aftcrward that u was good thing che
never gave him any rect until be had
taken her advice and built the ARK
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29
DE SOTO HOTEL.

First-class accommodations for 500
guests. Among the Improvements the
past summer 60 new bathrooms were add
ed. Tourists find Savannah the most in
teresting city in the South. An ideal
winter resort Special rates for families
remaining week or more. Tourists stop
ping at the De Soto may become assoc
cite members Of the Savannah Golf
Club.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

A bill has been introduced into the
Pennsylvania Legislature to compel rail-
reads in that state to issue family mile
age books, at the rate of two cents per
mile; the books 90 be good on all lines
of the company issuing them.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

Charles A. Towne of Minnesota says
the adoption of closure as a rule in the
Senate would throttle discussion in the
only body where free discussion is now
possible. Had closure been rule of the
Senate. the country would on many occa-
sions have been inflicted with vicious and
outrageous legislation, like the force bill
for instance. And the ship-subsidy scheme
would have been driven through at the
last session of Congress. There are some
strong points against unlimited debate in
the Senate. but it is very seldom that a
meritorious measure fails because of 1t.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29
The weather.

The indications for Georgia to-day are
for fair weather. fresh north to east winds,
and for Eastern Florida. fair weather,
hight west to north winds.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

Counterfeiters did not do a good busl-
ness last year. II is estimated by the gov
eminent secret service that not more
than $4,000 OF bogus money was put into
circulation. As there were 900 arrests for
counterfeitlng. the average counterfeiter
took his punishment for the triilng sat
isfaction OF imposing $50 worth OF bad
money upon the publc--a rather low ng-
ure for a term In prison and a lifelong
advertisement in the rogues' GALAXY.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

There was rather notable mixing Of
religions IN the Rev. Or. Macarthur
church IN New York the other night A
meeting wac held IN honor Of Baron and
baroness Dc Hlrsoh. who we're Jews. and
WI Ting Fang a Confucian. made The
leading address Dr. MacArthurs church
h che Calvary BapHst.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

In case the bill before the Illinois Leg
islature. providing that voters who are
too drunk to mark their ballots may be
assisted should become a law, it would
be next in order to provide some plan
for the voting of dead men and dogs.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29
SILL OF ROPE RY and G Z 8 Rr

SCHEDULE.
For Isle Of Hope, Montgomery, Thunder
bolt Cattle Park and West End.
Daily except Sundays. Subject to
change without notice
ISLE OF HOPE.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-29

Lv city for C..Park.l Lv. Cattle Park.
6 80 am from Bottom Z % am for Bolton
30 am from Bolton 90 am for Bolton
/ 90 pm from Bottom 1 30 pm for Bolton
80 pm from Bolton 8 90 pm for Bolton
90 pm from Bolton 7 80 pm for Bolton
90 pm from Boltou 80 pm fer Bolton
The Forrest City times., 1901-06-07
IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.

OF the 1900 convicts in Tennessee, 90
claim to be college graduates.
There are in California nearly $4,000
Italians. Their property is estimated
at $50, 900.
Two newspapers of New York spend
about S1,oo0,0o0 year each for
paper, the quantity consumed being
31,S7s tons.
Boston owes s1oe.72 per inha bitant;
Montreal owes 500; Cincinanti owes
$S3.65. Other American and Canadian
cities owe less.
There are two original portraits Of
Franklin in the Boston public library,
one by Duplessis, presented by Hon.
Edward Brooks; the other by Creme,
presented by Gardner Brewer.
Over 1000 uncontested actions for
absolute divorce, separation and an
nulment of marriage are decided every
year by the justices of the supreme
court in New York county, N. Y, alone.
DEGREES are granted in about rs per
cent. OF these. The procedure in un.
contested divorce suits is SO simple
that the evidence is generally followed
by an immediate divorces.
The Forrest City times., 1901-06-07
HERE AND THERE.

"A horse, like man Tor woman),
looks best, feels best, and is best,
when well dressed. Therefore keep
the horse well groomed.
Wouldn't Chinese or Philippine
rice grower, who harvests his crop
with butcher-knife, stare to see a
self binder working in an American
rice-field?
The dairyman who doesn't want
to know any more than he does about
his business is the one man who is
likely to water his milk, and if he is
a buttermaker also, he will divide the
cream with his milk customers.
The question whether Argora
goats and sheep will inter-breed has
been discussed for years. The best
authorities claim that they do so
breed sometimes, but the progeny is
worthless, infertle and short-lived.
For irrigation purposes the most
unwholesome waters are the best.
Well waters may contain fertilizing
salts, or injurious salts. but rarely
any of the nitrogen compounds, the
commonly deficient.
The spring has not been favor
able to the growth of sugar cane.
anywhere in the cane belt. True,
there has been no late cold weather
to hurt it, but on the other hand there
has been an insufiicieny of warm
weather to stimulate growth.
Good, fresh Persian insect pow
der is the best application for ver-
min on fowls, old or young, and espe-
cially for newly-hatched chicks. The
trouble is to get it fresh; as after it
is made, its virtues rapidly deterior-
ate. The active principle seems to be
very volatile.
Georgia is experiencing revival
of sugar farming. Once Georgia pro-
duced large amount of sugar, but
from some cause the cane has nearly
disappeared from the state. Efforts
have been made TO produce sugar
from corn stalks in Georgia. but the
opinion is that the plan viii not work
The Forrest City times., 1901-06-07
Saving wheat Hay.

We desire to say few words on
this important subject, as the time
is at hand for this work. Wheat
hay makes the very best of hay and
equals corn and fodder both, for feed.
Mules will pillow all day on it and
grow fat; and there is no better feed
for COWS.
The wheat should be cut when in
the dough stage, and before the rust
has injured the straw and blades.
And in this way the profit per acre
is about twice what it will be when
allowed to mature and to be thrash,
ed. We have not space to give a full
article on this subject, but wish es-
pecially to urge the farmers to save
some wheat hay, especially those who
are short Of feed. Its value is no
longer an experiment; it has been
tested and proven.-Dixie Farmer.
The Forrest City times., 1901-06-07
FOLKLORE IN THE SOUTH.
oonJur"tfon Traditions Tint Are
Credited Among the older
Negro People.

The stern frown of the preacher.
who looks upon superstition as the
ally of the evil one, the scornful sheer
OF the teacher, who sees in il n part
OF the livery of bondage, have driven
this quaint combination of ancestral
TRADITIONS to the remote chimney cor
ners of old black aunties, from which
1T is difficult for the stranger to uu-
earth them. Mr.. Harris, in his Uncle
Remus stories, has, with fine literary
discrimination, collected and put into
pleasing and enduring form the plan
tation stories which dealt with ami
mai lore, but so little attention has
been paid to those dealing with So
called coniuration that they seem in
fair way to disappear without leav-
ing a trace behind. The loss may not
be very great, but these vanishing
traditions might furnish valuable
data for the sociologist in the future
study of racial development, says
Charles w. Chestnut, in Modern Gull
ture Magazine.
In writing, few years ago, the
volume entitled, The Conjure Wom-
an" l suspect that was more infu-
enced by the literary value of the
material than by it's sociological bear
ing, and therefore took, or thought
l did, considerable liberty with my
subject. Imagination, however, can
only act upon data; one must have
somewhere in his consciousness the
ideas which he puts together to form
q connected whole. Creative talent,
OF whatever grade, is, in the last an
alysis, only the power of rearrange-
ment; there is nothing new under the
sun. was the more firmly impressed
with this thought after i had inter.
viewed half dozen old women and n
genuine "conjure DOCTOR" for l dis
covered that the brilliant touches.
due, l had thought, to my own mag
nation, were after all but dormant
ideas, lodged in my childish mind by
old Aunt This and old Uncle That,
and awaiting only the spur of imag-
lnation to bring theEl again to the
surface. For instance, in the story,
"Hot-Foot Hannibal" there figures
conjure doll with pepper feet. Those
pepper feet l regarded as peculiarly
my own-a purely original creation.
l heard only the other day in North
Carolina of the CONSERVATION struck
to the heart of certain dark indi-
vidual, upon finding upon his door.
step a rabbits foot-a good omen in
itself perhaps-to which a malign in
fiuence had been impaired by tying to
one end of it, in the form of cross,
two small pods of red pepper
The Forrest City times., 1901-06-07

large tap root which plunges into the
sub-soil TO pump up water and plant
1000 from below. and the people who
make the largest yields of cotton are
these who take into consideration the
structure of the plant and tit their
land accordingly.
1 have friend in South Georgia
VINO has made three bales of cotton to
the acre. 1t is true he applied guano
at the rate of 1000 pounds per acre,
but it is also true that he broke his
land is inches deep.
L have often been asked how much
fertilizer can be applied profitably to
the cotton crop, and my reply has
been that no rule can be laid down:
but that the profit would depend in
great measure on the condition of
the land and its ability to hold water
sufficiently TO make the guano solu-
Bile; and it would also depend largely
On the guano itself, whether ii was
properly balanced, and contained a
sufficient quantity of potash, toget,,-
er with the other elements of plant
food, to supply the needs of the soil
ara crop to which it was applied.
Where very large quantities of fertil-
izers are used, especial preparation
must be resorted to, as in the case of
my south Georgia friend, who not
only broke his land deeply, but pull
'erzed 1T thoroughly, applying 500
pounds of his fertilizer broadcast, and
200 pounds in the drill. The general
experience is, however, that under or
binary conditions AGO rounds or 500
pounds of a high-grade fertilizer to
the acre will give the most profitable
results.
There is an old saving, that thor.
ough preparation is half of the culti-
vation. We have proved this to be
eminently true, and each succeeding
year finds us spending more time and
labor IN putting our land in the best
possible condition before planting
T. ). Merriam, in Southern Cultivator.
The Forrest City times., 1901-06-07
Reading and Thinking,

There is absolutely no excuse for q
farmer being an ignoramus to-day.
There is every incentive and every op-
portunity for him to become well in
formed as to his profession. The best
of literature touching all phases of
his business, short courses at our
splendid agricultural schools, the
farmers institutes, cheap books on
agricultural topics, and the bulletins
OF the experiment stations are each
and all easily available and entirely
within the reach of any enterprising
farmer. The use of modern farm ma
chinery gives the man who operates
it plenty of time and opportunity to
at least work his gray matter and
think some about his work-the op-
Grafton of the sulky pillow, the corn
plow after the corn is we'll up and
the mower on smooth meadows-will
permit him TO pull a book or paper
out of his pocket and read a bit as
he works. 1t may be put down for
fact that the farmer who will take
Is minutes each day to read practical
matter along the lines of his work
viii not only make more money, but
take a pride and feel an ambition in
his work before unknown.-Montana
Stockman.
The Forrest City times., 1901-06-07
THE CULTIVATION OF COTTON.
A Prime Factor Are Putting the
Lend i'm Proper Condition. aui
FertiIixing InteIIigently.

The principal function of cultivation
Is to put the land in such condition
and keep it in such condition as will
make the plant food it contains as
fully available as possible. This, of
course, includes deepening the soil SO
1T will hold more water, for plant
food is not available for the use of
crops except as it becomes soluble
ia water, and also the keeping of a
dust mulch, or thin layer of fine,
freshly-broken soil on the surface to
prevent the escape of this water af-
ter it has been secured.
Now, cotton, while it does nost of
Its feeding in the first four inches of
surface soil, has, as you all know, u