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The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
HURT BY BAD GOVERNMENT.

The newspapers of Philadelphia are haV-
ing an interesting time over the giving
away, by the Mayor and Councils of that
city, of millions of dollars worth of
franchises. 1t has been stated in our
dispatches that John wanamaker has Of
fered 50, CO., 900 for franchises that the city
gave to a few politicians. OF course the
offer has not been accepted. Indeed.
those who got the franchises have been
extremely careful about saying anything
concerning the vast concessions they got.
Some time ago the Mayor advertised for
bids for bonds to the amount of 100000,
the proceeds to be used in building a great
filter plant, with the view of giving the
city better drinking water. On Monday
the bids were opened, and it was found
there was but one bid, and that one was
for only 5000. 1t was at once said by
the papers opposed to the Mayor and
Councils that the city's credit had been
injured by the giving away of millions of
dollars worth of the city's franchises.
The position was taken that with such
a gang as there is in the city hall finan-
cers and investors are afraid to buy the
city's bonds.
On the other hand the newspapers fav-
orable to the Mayor and Councils ex-
plained that the rate of interest had ad-
vanced recently and therefore 1t was i'm
possible to sell the bonds at the price
the city had fixed upon. This seemed to
be a pretty poor excuse. 1t Is doubtful
IL Il was accepted by the great majority
of the people. Certain it is, however that
the great and rich city of Philadelphia,
a city that has a comparatively small
debt. cannot borrow money as easily as
some other cities not half so wealthy. Bad
government will tell against a town.
Nobody wants the bonds of a municipal
ity, the officials of which miss no oppor-
tunity to grab whatever they can lay
their hands on.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
PERSONAL.

The Rev. Edward Schnadhorst has
been pastor of a London church for forty
three years, without a salary. He is a
man of independent means, who in 1858
dedicated his life to work among the poor
of the East End of London.
Sir Martin Conway, the new Slade
professor at Cambridge University. is an
artist, an art critic and an architect. but
he is best known a mountain climber
Several times he has traversed the Alps
from end to end; he has explored and
surveyed the Bolivian Andes has pene-
trated the written about Spitzbergen, and
has assembled Aconcagua, Sorata and Illi-
mani.
Prof. Thomas C. Esty of Amherst,
who has been elected professor of math-
ematics in the University of Rochester.
was graduated from Amherst in 1891. In
1898 he went to Germany to study mathe-
mates under Professors Klein and Hill
bert of Gottingen. On his return he
taught mathematics in the Case School
of Applied Science, in Cleveland. going
thence to Amherst to assist his father,
Professor William c. Esty, who is at the
head of the department of mathematics.
Otis Amsden Gage. who has been ap-
pointed assistant professor of mathemat-
les in the University of Rochester was
graduated from that institution in 1899
Since then he has been teacher of
sciences in the High School of Geneva,
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The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
Don't Think About 1t.

A little 3-year-old girl who was tired Of
play and was restless because she had
nothing to do, pulled all the buds from
fuchsia that promised to become very
beautiful in a few days, says the New
York Evening Post. Her mother chideo
her for 1T.
But, mamma, I didn't do it," protested
the child.
''Oh yes YOU add know YOU did. There
was nobody else here who could have done
it. Besides, see the green stains on
your fingers.
The child regarded her fingers rather
seriously. The evidence was too con-
vincing.
Eyes. mamma" she said. 81 did pull off
the buds"
Then the mother spoke of the distress
she felt that her little girl had told her
an untruth. She quite touched the child's
heart and brought tears TO her eyes. The
mother also was crying before she got
through.
"Oh, my little GIRL she said. you have
always been so truthful. 1 can hardly
realize that you have told me a fasehood.
1t will distress me whenever 1 think of
it,
Then, mamma" said the sympath etic
little philosopher, putting her little arms
around her mothers neck, IF you jus
stop f1nkin about it, the distress will
go away. An won't fink about it eiverr'
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
London. Tombstone Sidewalks.

Did you know that it was possible to
walk owes tombstones to the Strand? asks
the London Express.
Savoy steps which lead from the Chapel
Royal to the Strand, nearly opposite Bur
leigh street, and two doors from Terry $
Theater, are, some of them, formed from
tombstones.
How can they have possibly come there
you Will ask.
The simple eXplana ton is that when the
Savoy steps were being put up the build
ers must have taken from likely flags
away from the graves in the churchyard
of the Chapel Royal hard by.
The lettering on one or two of these
stones, despite the trampling of the in
Vulnerable feet and the passage of the
many years that have passed over them,
can even now be read.
The best preserved reads as follows:
Here lyeth the body of William, the
only son of Adam and Mary Cook. of this
parish who departed - Qetters obliter-
ated) - of September, - years"
There is no date visible, but from the
style of the lettering it must be about 100
years old.
cisely when these gravestones were put
in their present positions, and also how
it came about that they were allowed to
remain thus by the authorities. 1t makes
you woned if your tombstone may not
one day be put to like use by an enter
prising future generation.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
aLaw West of the pecos..

Judge Roy Bean, of law west of the
Pecos" fame, added another chapter to
his career. and a tourist is stricken with
nervous prostration that promises to last
htm until he returns to Massachusetts,
says the Ell Pecos Herald.
The law west of the Pecos" went
through the Pullman car and gave all
the passengers a smell of his revolver.
The Judge was on one of his tri-weekly
tears" yesterday and when the train
stopped at Langtry for dinenr at 6 o. clock
last night he paid little attention to the
passengers. Two fresh qoung fellows from
the Far East wanted drink and went
into Judge Beams saloon. The Judge was
resting easy and at first did not want to
wait on them. One of the men wanted a
drink of whisky, but the old man said
he had none. The passenger then offered
him a two-dollar bill to pay for a bottle
of beer. Bean refused the bill, saying that
it was not money, and he would take no
paper in exchange for his goods. The 9TH
er fellow had to change the bill for him
and he got the beer. In the meantime the
other stranger had engaged the Judge in
conversation and the man who bought
the beer went out without paying for it.
Presently the Judge noticed that his man
was gone and taking his 45-revolver from
the counter went after him.
When he went into the tourist car he
showed his gun in the face of every pas
senger he met pending investigation,
Finding that he was mistaken he passed
on until he found the right party. Pulling
the trigger the Judge poked the young
cannon in the face of the man who had
beat him and said: "Thirty-five cents or
l press the button" So anxious was the
stranger to comply with the demand of
the Court that he Offered the Judge a
dollar, not wishing to wait to find the
exact change. The Judge changed the
money and turning to the startled pas
sengers said:
That's the kind of an hombre I am. 1
am the law west of the Pecos."
The passengers were frightened out of
their wits until the conductor came in
and explained that the bully was really
the law west of the Pecos' and to obey
him was THE best way to get along with
him and advised the young Fastener
never to try to beat Westerner out of
the price of bottle of beer.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
rHE MnRNING NEWs Is pubushe

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The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
sHIPPERs AND RAILROADS.

The indications are that a great fight
between leading shippers and the railroads
is about to be begun. Prominent West
ern shippers complain that by means of
the community of interest" plan and by
combinations the railroads have raised
rates ten to twenty per cent. These ship
pers intend to take their cases before the
Interstate Commerce Commission, and 1t
is probable that there will be a long fight
before that body.
It is said, however, that the fight before
the commission will be only preliminary
to a much greater fight that is to be
made in Congress for a uniform classih-
cation of freight. which shall be effect
i've on every railroad in the country.
Assuming that the shippers are going De
fore the commission and Congress with
their grievances, it is a safe prediction
that there will be an issue that will play
an important part in politics. The poll
tcans are quick to seize upon anything
which promises TO interest and divide the
people, and this railroad rate question is
one in which pretty nearly everybody is
interested.
It would be a source of satisfaction TO
know whether the railroads have raised
rates or whether they have simply placed
themselves in a position in which they
can compel prominent shippers to pay
as much as smaller shippers-that is
whether they are now simply making the
large shippers pay full rates There has
hro IeA
long time that the great shippers have
been getting rebates, or rates much below
those paid by small shippers. They were
able to get these rates because of the
competition between competing railroads
The railroads could not help themselves
because one road would bid against an
other for the business of a firm which
did a great amount of shipping. Now
that the roads have combined, or have
entered into arrangements among them
selves not 10 cut rates, the big shippers
ere shown no favors. Naturally they feel
aggrieved. They have practically con-
trolled the railroads so long that they can
not realize that they have been put on
the footing occupied by the ordinary ship
pers.
1t is probable, however that a uniform
classification of freight would be a good
thing, but it would be unjust to compel
a railroad that has a very light traffic
and is just beginning to develop the coun-
try tributary to it TO accept the same rate
of freight as a road that has a vast traffic
business. If the difference between ship
pers and railroads get into Congress they
are likely to remain there a good long
while. The questions which will be pre-
scented for adjustment will be more
troublesome than those which grow out
of the tariff.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27

Fred Austorf, an Illinois farmer. mar
rowly missed buying the Auditorium Ho-
TEL in Chicago, the other day for 500.
Austorf was in the city Ito see the
sights" and found there a man OF the
name Of Hughes who agreed to show
them to him. Among other places they
visited the Auditorium. This belongs
to me-" said Hughes: how would you
like TO own it?" "First-rate," said the
countryman. "how much will we take for
it?' oh about 500 l guess" replied
Hughes. I'm sorry. but I've got only
$50 with me-" said the farmer. That's
all right" returned the accommodating
Hughes. give me the $50 now and you
can pay the other $50 later" Austorf was
about TO give up his money when he
thought to inquire OF somebody else II
Hughes had authority to make the sale.
When he found that Hughes hadn't he
was indignant. and thought that his
friend had been trying 10 bunco him.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27

EOttEluN IN NE w
Is the New Highlander of Pilgrim and
Puritan blood doomed to follow the dodo
and the magatherium into extinction? If
so, what what will become of the world
when the New Englanders of Pilgrim
strait are no longer here to run il? From
the time the Mayfiower landed her emf
grants from the old world and there
spnang up colonies in the new, the New
Englanders have felt that it devolved
upon them to furnish the brains and the
high ideals for the rest of mankind, and
more especially that part residing upon
this continent. Now, however, the census
indicates that these self-constituted guar
dams of men, morals and manners are
losing ground. Already they are in a mi
nority in Connecticut, and it may be
shown that similar condition of affairs
exists in Massachusetts,.
According to the enumeration of 1900, of
the total population of Connecticut 26 per
cent. is foreign born and 81 per cent. born
in the United States of foreign parents.
Thus we have 81 per cent. of foreign blood
in one of the oldest of the New England
SldIGo, iIOl 10 SpNeih VI Lllt NCliAihlilSi ms
of foreign with Pilgrim blood through
marriage.
Only 43 per cent. of the population of
Connecticut is what, under strict con-
struction, can be called native; that is,
descendants of those who built the colo
MES and fought the wars against the saw
ages and for independence. We have al
ways contended that the South is the
most american" part of the country.
That this is true is to be seen by com
parison of the foreign element in the
population of Alabama and Arkansas with
that in the population of Connecticut-the
only states, so far, in which the compila-
ton has been completed. While the New
England state has 81 per cent. of foreign
blood, in both Alabama and Arkansas
the foreign element comprises only per
cent. of the total population. Sixty-eight
per cent. of the population Of Arkansas is
composed OF native whites Of native par
per cent of the population of Alabama.
Colored persons. of course, make up the
remainder. except the / per cent. of for
egners, in the two states.
Up to this time the South has received
very little of the foreign immigration. 1t
has gone West or remained in the North
near the point of debarkation. 1t is to be
expected, however, that greater num-
Der of homeseekers will find their way
into the South henceforth. Foreigners
who at first went West because they were
given to understand that life and prop
erty was not safe in the South having
learned better. are now beginning to drift
in this direction. Southern industries are
being built up and capital is finding profit
ably employment in this section. This
will all call for an influx of white immi-
grants, who will come in and grow up
with the country. Meanwhile, the South's
population will continue for long time
to come to be made up of those whose an
cestOrs were Americans.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
And Doesn't own 1t Yet,

Pap Fender has been a doorkeeper al
the White House for upward of forty
years, and he is writing a book on his
experiences there, says the Washington
correspondence of the Philadelphia North
American. He is the man who assisted
President Lincoln to his carriage on the
night of his assassination at Ford's The
alter, in this city, thirty-sx years ago
Fender also escorted President Garfield to
his carriage on the morning the latter
was shot at the Pennsylvania Railroad
station. by Charles J. Guiteau
The other day a Hebrew was a visitor
at the White House. and Pap Pender
was showing him through the building
Pap is very fond of telling people how
long he has been employed at the execu-
tive mansion. When he informed his He
brew friend that he had been there near
ly forty years the latter, looking at him
in great establishment, exclaimed:
And you don't own it yetr
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
Hard 10 Choose,

Uncle Jerry Ardhedd had two neighbors
both of a somewhat controversial turn
says the Youths Companion One was d
man who contended that nothing could be
positively known that was not capable
OF absolute proof or a mathematical dem
onstration the other was disposed to dog
matize about everything.
They met at his house one evening, and
a long argument on things theological
and otherwise ensued between the two
with the customary result. Neither of the
disputants succeeded in convincing the
other. nor even i'm shaking his opinion.
We'll" said Uncle Jerry. drawing a
long breath of relief after they had gone
away. there isn't very much difference
after ALL between an agnostic and-and
a coenostic."
II was new word, but seems one OF
legitimate coinage.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
CIVIL SERVICE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Judge Taft, the head of the Philippine
Commission, says that the civil service
law will be even more necessary in the
Philippines than it is in the United
States, for the reason that the islands
will be overrun with applicants for every
place in the gift of the civil
government, and that as a rule, the
majority of them will be entirely worth
less, the refuse from the states, men who
could not make living at home. and in
most instances will have strong political
backing 1t will be, therefore, necessary
to have some means with which to turn
them down.
Judge Taft points out an evil with
which the new government of the ISL
ands will have to contend. 1t is a safe
prediction that every politician of infu-
ence and every congressman will try to
unload on the Philippines all of their re-
lations and followers who have not shown
themselves equal to the task of taking
care of themselves. II there is no OBJ
struction placed in the way the material
which will be shipped to the Philippines
to fill the minor places will be the most
worthless there is in the country. As a
matter of fact the government
ought to be so conducted as
to make good impression on
the natives. 1t ought to be administered
by able men who should have the assist
ance of capable and morally clean men
in the subordinate and minor places.
1t is going to be long and hard pull
to lift the Fnlpinos to a higher plane of
civilization. but it can be done, in all
probability. If the new civil government is
honestly and efficiently administered.
Judge Taft is on the right line in insist
ing upon a civil service law, though 1t is
certain that he will have the opposition
of about all of the politicians. There is a
big element in this country that cares
nothing about the Philippines except for
what can be made out of them. There
fore there is certain to be opposition to
any scheme which has for its object the
uplifting of the Filipinos and an honest
and capable government for them.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27

Gen. Daniel f. Sickles says he has mott
fed President Mckinley that the Grand
Army of the Republic will mo longer toll
crate h. Clay Evans in the office of Com
missioner of Pensions" and that il Evans
is not put out the Republicans will lose
the next Congressional elections. Sickles
talks like paid representative of the
pension attorney sharks, who are the per-
sons mostly aggrieved by Commissioner
Evans. They do not like Evans because
he will not pass any and every claim put
in by them. He insists upon enforcing
the law. The veterans of the union army
those that did the lighting and suffered,
and are entitled to pensions-are not hav-
ing much to say against Evans. II is the
pension sharks and the demagogues like
Dan sickles that are making all OF the
fuss.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
An Immune.

The chief Of the rack department and
the superintendent Of the inquisition were
baffied, says Leslie's Weekly. The victim
had now been on the rack six hours. and
was pleasantly springing all kinds of sac
religious gags on the rack attendants
The authorities were non plussed. Any
greater strain would break the rack.
Would the culprit never recant2
Hal he a. about to speak again. VIII
1t be a recantation, or another Joke on the
Jersey mosquito2
The victim opens his mouth. and every
ear lends attention.
II these blamed mudsils," he muttered
~ himself. know that for Ave years [
have ridden twice q day from Harlem
down to Broad street. hanging on 10 the
straps on the elevated. they'd use this
eid rack for a garden gate and Try moral
AuaGion."
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Andrew Hanley Com
pany; Savannah Building Supply Com
pany; Dividend Notice Citizens Bank of
Savannah; Levan's Table dHote.
Business Notaces-Henry " Cigars,
Henry Solomon & Son. Wholesale Agents;
Root Beer, Etc. A. M. & C. w. West; A
Present. A. Van Keuren & Co, jewelers..
This Is Ball Night-At the South End
and the Big Pavilion.
Educational Cheuoweth Boarding
School for Young Ladies. Washington, D.
c.
Headquarters for swedes Iron-J. D.
Weed & Co.
Legal Notices-In the Matter of Isaiah
Griffin of Cambridge Ca.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company's Steamers.
Half Price on Coats and Pants, Etc
B. H. Levy & Bro.
Melting Away to Nothing, the Prices
At Adler's Store.
First Chance-B. H. Levy & Bro.
Grape Nuts Food-Postum Cereal Co.
Stock Taking Sale-Gustave Eckstein &
Co.
Watches-W altman Watches.
Whisldes-Murray Hill Club WhisSey;
Old Quaker Rye whiksey
Paste-Stearns' Electric Paste.
Railroad Schedule-Southern Railway.
Medical-Peruna; S. S. s.: Castoria
TUFTS Pills; Worlds Dispensary Prepar-
alton; DIR. Hathaway Company; Pond
Extract.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27

Not even the public parks escape the
rapacity of the New York politicians. One
of them has just secured a franchise for
renting chairs in Central Park, where the
people have been accustomed to sit and
rest. to their hearts content, without
charge. The concessionaire will place
chairs in the park, for the use of which
the charge will be cents. The only re-
deeming feature about the scheme is that
one may occupy the chair all day for one
payment, if he or she so desires.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27

Not only the mosquito, but the indus
trious and searching flea is declared to
be an active instrument in the spread OF
the plague. typhoid fever and cholera. In
a recent circular to the surgeons of the
Marine Hospital Service. Surgeon General
Wyrnan calls attention to the Official
denunciation of the mosquito. and enum-
crates other noxious insects and bugs
which need to be looked after. The wo-
men viii probably agree with the author
titles that there ought to be a campaign
against the flea.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-27

The benehcent American tariff system
is now getting in it's work upon the for
nerly happy island of Guam, as we'll as
Porto Rico. In Guam, it is said, the tar
iff stops all trade. Commerce is dead, and
the inhabitants of the island are in dan
ger of starving unless the government
goes to their support. The industries of
Guam are extremely limited, hence when
of business the whole island feels the
effect of it. However, the tariff barons
will probably say that it is Guam's mis-
fortune and not the tariffs fault if it's
operations cause the inhabitants of the
island to starYe.