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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-30
THINK PROSPECT THE POOREST.
For Cotton Crop In Several Years,
Say Farmers.

One has but to drive through the
plantations about Americas to get a
correct idea of the condition of the
cotton crop, say the farmers. Much
young cotton has died within the past
week, and it is the opinion of farmers
that the stand is the poorest in years.
Nota few farmers are still buying seed
and will replant as far as possible.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-30

Buy a nice home quick. See M. Cal
lawRy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-30
Mems
FiXiugS

Mems Right in step with the
EixiupS most progressive ideas is
this Mems Furnishing sec
ton; latest twists in ties, newest cut in
collars right things in socks, suspenders
shirts, etc. And all stripped of the fan
cy profits SO often asked by the expen.
sive furnisher.
Mems fancy negligee shirts in all the
newest coloriDgs and stripes, regular
price $3.50 and 81. % at $l.OO.
Mems white negliges shirts plated
fronts worth ST.. % at 81 90.
Mems white and colored shirt waists
new goods and latest styles at $1.75,
81 90 and 81. %.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-30

Heaven never helps the man who is
too lazy to hustle a little in his own
behalf.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-30

Summer is pre-emi-
nently a season for tow
els. If you sre not
the Increased need, good
to so stock, here and now
y all linen Huck Towels
bre 15c at 10c.
a large size all linen Huok
Zoe at 19c.
xtra large sta Turkish
pleached or nnbleached reg
us week 15c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-30

There will he room for about goo vol
unteer officers in the now army
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-12
THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
An Interesting Bulletin Issued by
the Census Office.

A bulletin on the manufacture of beet
sugar has been issued by the Census Blu
reau. 1t was prepared by DIR. g. L.
Spencer. OF the Department of Agricul-
ture, under the direction of s n. ID.
Worth, Chief Statistician for Manufac-
lures.
In the preparation of this report DR..
Spencer personally visited every beet
sugar factory In operation in the Uaited
States and his report is an admira bic
statement of the development and present
condition of this new industry. In view
OF the great interest in the subject of the
manufacture Of sugar from the beet. Dr.
Spencer was directed to prepare report
more detailed than usual. From this re
port it appears that there were thirty-one
beet sugar factories in the United States
in the census year, distributed among ten
States and one Territory, representing an
invested capital Of S20,958 SO, and pr6ddc-
ing 1.i27 long tons of beet sugar valued
at 1872, S57. This is small product in
view Of the amount of capital invested
due largely to the fact that the census
crops.
The existence of thirty-seven factories
is reported at the close of the census
year. having nominal daily capacity of
22.3l0 short tons of beets and capable of
manufacturing 10000 short tons of sugar
annually.
The decade ending with the Twelfth
Census covers the period of greatest ac-
uvity in this industry. and may almost be
said to have witnessed its birth as a sue
cesstul manufacturing enterprise As the
result OF his Investigations the special
agent reports that the beet sugar manu-
facture may now be regarded as a COM
mercial success in the United States
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-12
HAVANA'S HEAVY BUDGET
An Excess of More Than Half u MIL
lion Over Last Year

| HAVANA, March 1.-THE muufcinaI
budget. after revision by munjcinaI
board of taxpayers. amounts to 81 $50
600. which is $6O0,O00 in excess of last
years budget
Inc Discussion says that the exploit
ing of the taxpayers of Havana should
cease The new budget shows an Increase
OF $4,000 for salaries. and s.. 900 is allowed
as Income from cemeteries. in spite of the
TACT That cemetery taxes have been sus-
pended by higher authority A future
deficit is assured
The paper adds that stop should he
placed upon abuses by people who are as
inscriptions In matters of administ ration
as they are in matters OF morality.
Senior Carnot recently resigned from the
political party to which he belonged in
Matdnzas on the ground that it opposed
the candidacy of Maxine Gomez for the
Presidency of Cuba. General Gomez has
written to him, saying that the President
ought to be a native-born Cuban ard that
none of the four foreigners whose names
have been mentioned In connection with
the office has ever expressed a wish to
hold II.
He added that many Cubans distruste ed
his declarations to the effect that he does
not wish to occupy any position in the
Cuban Republic. All he wished, however,
was to leave a glorious name to his fam
lily and friends.
Messrs. Burton, Davidson. Acheson.
Alexander, DOvener, Morris. Sparkman.
and Ball, of the House Committee on
Rivers and Harbors, arrived here today
They have come merely to see the island
and will leave CUBA on Friday
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-12

Just why any Chamber of Commerce or
other organization of intelligent English
men should imagine that this country
would permit Intervention or interference
in a matter of such vital domestic con-
Germ as the future of Cuba. without in
stant war, is hard to understand. That
is. always supposiug the Administration,
in its private aud unofficial arrangements
and 'gentlemen's agreements" with Great
Britain. has reserved to itself any indie
pendencc of action in the affairs of the
North American Continent and outlying
Islands in the possession of this Govern
ment.
The Manchester incident serves to
show that Congress was not too prompt
in serving notice on the world that Cuba,
whatever degree of independence in local
affairs may be accorded her, necessarily
must be regarded as always under rae
protection and tutelage of the United
States. which Power will represent the
island in its foreign relations. and in the
other respects above referred to. The
only question is: How far will the Ad-
ministration go in resisting such an ag
gression as the Manchester Chamber OF
Commerce evidently hopes that Lord
Salisburys Government will commit?
The answer ought to be easy, and there
is but one that would ever be heard from
the mouths of the American people. But.
unfortunately. we have seen the Eagle
abased before the Lion in the contempti
bic design of the -Pauncefote Treaty
to revive the Clayton Bulwer Convention.
and in the surrender of our Porcupine
district in Alaska, after its invasion and
seizure by the British and so there
is no telling to what extent complacency
to Britain might be carried, even at the
risk of unpleasant consequences to the
Government and citizenship of the Uni
ted States. 1t will be interesting to
watch for the outcome
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-12
The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty Dead.

Yesterday, Lord Pauncefote commEni-
Gated to the State Department the rea-
sons of his Government for allowing the
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty to lapse, and its
regrets that the negotiations in connec-
ton with that matter should have ended
so inconsequentially.
This regret will not be shared by any
patriotic element in the United States.
on the contrary, there will be widespread
satisfaction in the knowledge that so I'M
American and humiliating an agreement
or the part of this country has come to
naught Great Britain may imagine that,
after our supine offer to enter into an ar
rangement reviving the corpse of the
Clayton-Bulwer Convention, we shall at
once set about begging for another like
it. but even more degrading to the United
States The British Foreign Office Is so
much more in the confidence of the Ad-
ministration than is the American public
that such an expectation may not be Ill
founded. II it should happen that cloture
were forced upon the Senate at the next
session. we might say that probably it
had much basis.
As the case stands. however the Clay
ton Bulwer Convention is out of the way.
and there could be no further excuse for
its being regarded otherwise by the Presi-
dent or Department of State. 1t does not
need abrogation, because it never had
force or effect, since 1t was never ratif7d
by the Senate in the form in which it has
been the habit of British Cabinets to
shake it over our heads. 1t is a mere
ghost of a egrettab!e past which needs
only to be boohed at TO disappear. At
last. again. our hands are free in Central
America, as far as Great Britain is con-
cerned. AT the same time it is true that
they are badly tied by the relentless OPP
position of the Transportation Trust to
any canal between the oceans except the
Panama, which they know can never be
successfully constructed.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-12
PLEAS OF PORTO RICANs.
A Delegation Confers With the Pres
ident Concerning Taxation.

| The Porto Rican Commission which has
! come to Washington to present the OBJ
| jections of various business and public
| interests of the island to the HoIlander
| bill, which was passed by the Porto Rican
| Legislature, and which provides for the
raising of revenue by property and ex-
| else taxes. was received by the President
yesterday morning. AS resait of the
| conference, which lasted over an hour.
| the President will consider the objections
and has promised the commissiG1 tina I
he will instruct Governor Allen to be ex-
| tremely lenient in the enforcement of .he
| law and to exercise the greatest care in
| the appointment Of assessors.
Only three of the members of the COM
mission Were present at the conference.
They were Senior W. Borda, Senior c.
| Borda, and Senior Vincente Balbos The
other member of the commission, Senior
| Salazar, was detained in New York The
commission was accompied to the White
House by Senators EIkins and Beveridge.
Perry Heath, and Mr.. Corwin the Sec
rotary Of the Merchants Association Of
New York.
The objections of the commission were
embodied In a small pamphlet which sets
forth the fact that the people of the is
land are very poor and that there is at
the present time less than 81 O10nOO in
circulation on the island. Under the pro-
visions Of the HOllander law $500 400 will
be collected semi-annually, thereby les
SEEMING the money in circulation and pro-
ducing condition of business stagnation
another objection to which especial at
tention is given, Is that the two princi-
pal products of the island rum and to-
bacco) are taxed so heavily that their
production under existing conditions is
practically prohibited.
a clause in Governor Aliens message to
the Legislature, in which he stated that
there was a surplus in the treasury of
the island and that there was no neccs-
sity for any immediate revenue legisla-
ton. is given a prominent place among
the objections Under the existing law
taxes are paid Semi-annually, and in case
the taxpayer is delinquent for a period
of more than six rlonths his property
may be confiscated. The President said
Yesterday that he was unable to do any
thing to prevent the enactment of this
part of the law. IL is thought, however.
that Governor Allen will construe it so
leniently that coniiscation of property for
delinauent taxes will not be ordered.
The members of the delegation com
plain also that the majority of the native
members of the lnsular Board of E.quaIi-
cation should themselves be taxpayers.
The present members are not familiar
with the needs of the situation, they say,
and the same complaint applies to the
American members This board consists
of sin Americans and five Porto Ricans
Tho delegation also told the President
they were afraid OF dishonest practices
of the board
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-12
DENY THAT PLAGUE EXISTS.
The California Commission Gives
Out IA Strong statement

In reference to the reports of buhonic
plague in San Francisco the delegation
OF CaiHornians appointed by the Governor
10 confer with the Treasury Department
gave out this statement yesterday:
Some disputes having arisen between
the authorities as to the health condition
in California, and the quarantine at San
Francisco. a commission was appointed
by Governor Gage and Mayor Phelin to
confer with the health authorities at
Washington. Meetings have been held
with the Secretary of the Treasury, Ly-
man J. Gage. and with Assistant Score
tary Spaulding, and Surgeon General wy
man. at which it was elected that no
single case of disease had ever been found
in California of the infectious bubonic-
pneumonia type. and that all other cases
examined (none being of white people,
were of a non-contagious character. The
Federal authorities have expressed them
selves as amply satisfied that California
is able to protect the other States in the
Union and herself from any species of cpl
demic. and instead of IA condition existing
that calls for Federal interference, the
representatives of the Surgeon General s
office now in San Francisco are in hearty
accord with the city and State authorities.
California is doing her duty: she has
no epidemic now and never has had.
There has not even been report of a
supposed case of plague for twenty
three days and the death rate for China
town is now the lowest it has been for
ten years
Amy statement that the Treasury De-
partment or the Surgeon Generals De-
partment has taken charge of health af-
fairs in San Francisco is absolutely and
unqualifiedly false"
In making the statement that no case
of plague had been found in San Fran
cisco the commission takes direct issue
with Secretary Gage, who said on Satur-
day that the commission of experts ap-
pointed by him to investigate the plague
situation in San Francisco had returned
a report which stated that there had
been six deaths in that city from the
disease and that several cases still ex-
listed there.
1t has been learned also. on official au-
thority, that Surgeon General White of
the Marine Hospital Service had been
designated as the official to have charge
of the measures taken to control the sit
uation in Chinatown, San Francisco.
where the present cases of the plague are
located
The Treasury officials unite in saying
that there is no cause for alarm on the
part of the people in surrounding States
and that the spread of the disease in San
Francisco can probably be prevented by
strict measures. The Department insists,
however, that the Federal Government
shall take such measures as it deems nee
essary without interference from the
State and city authorities, such as has
been manifested during the last few
weeks.
Assistant Secretary Spauldng. however
announced yesterday that the epidemic
was of an extremely mild type and non
contagious. and that San Francisco was
as healthy as any city in the United
States
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-12

er could heal the wound supernatural
power ought to have prevented the fell
in the first place 1t is certainly 40 hard
er to keep person from falling down
stairs than to close up a four-inch cut
in the head, caused by the fall But as
the apostles of this sect do not use logic
they cannot be expected to reason logic
ally on this matter.
one reason for the fact that this doc
trine has spread as widely as it has is
that the ma jority of people are not accus-
toned to reason. In many famllies anu
schools reasoning is actually discouraged.
The child is told to take on faith what
ever its teachers or parents tell IT, ana
not to try to understand the why ana
wherefore This is direct fostering of
credulity. 1t also saves time and trouble
during the training of the child. In eN-
actly the same way the masses of the
people have been discouraged from rea-
soning. They have been addressed with
large words and told that they must re-
spect the superior learning of those wiser
than themselves. This would be all very
well if the leaders always were wiser
than the led. But when they are not.
the results are woeful.
There was one thing not so very bad
about the elaborate and cherries system
of ealvinism and the theology which
grew out of it; when at its best it did
train people to think rather then to feel.
The old-fashioned country community.
which demanded doctrinai sermons, and
was on the alert to spy out defects in the
orthodoxy of the clergyman. did, at any
rate, have to do some acute reasoning to
find out whether he was orthodox or not
The siipshod modern church system Is
neither lovely nor intellectual 1t does
not encourage thinking or anything else.
1t is superficial. and In many cases not
very religious in its influence. 1t encour-
ages credulity, not reasoning. CreduIity
is a thing which the human mind easily
culuvates. The habit of easy belief is
as seductive to some natures "a the drink
habit. 1t is so much easier to believe that
everything is all right than to try to find
out what is wrong and set it right, that
perhaps ii is not surprising that the sun
shiny doctrines of Mrs Eddy have APP
pealed to certain people with irresistible
force Rhetoric is much more easily cul-
tivated than medical science, and it
would appear. from the number of heal
ers" now making a living in the land. that
it is almost as profitable. We need, more
than anything else, in this country, I'M
finching honesty of thought and speech
and the courage to face bad conditions
with the faith that they can be bettered.
Hut the faith is not enough We must
discover the way to make them better,
and then go about it
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-12
COL. G. B. CoWLAN DEAD.
He Succumbed to ApopIexy in n New
York Hotel

NEW YORK, March 11.-Col George B.
Cowlan was found dead in bed today in
his room at the Cosmopolitan. Death
was due to apopleXy-
He was born in 1892 At the outbreak
Of the civil war he was a telegraph opera
tor. He Joined Ellsworths ZOuaves and
went Immediately to the front y little
later he was placed in command of the
Geographic communication of General
McClellans army. When the Monitor had
the famous duel with the Merrimac he
was at Newport News. In the fight a
shell struck his office, where he sat at
the wire.
At the end of the war the colonel was
made secretary of the Reconstruction
Committee at Washington and had close
relations with General Butler. In later
years he edited several trade and tinan-
cial papers in this city.
Up to a short time ago he was Vice
President of the Interstate Finance
Company, at 277 Broadway. He had large
interests in the iron trade in Canada, and
was about to devote himself to them ex-
clusively when he died. He leaves a
widow. a son. and a daughter.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-12
THE PRICES OF CAMERAS.
A Hearing on the Cost of Photo
graphic Supplies.

Walter s Hubbell, of Rochester, n. Y.
| and c. s. Abbott. OF jamestown, N Y,
| officers of the General Aristotype Com
pany, were witnesses before the Indus
trial Commission yesterday. This company
controls the greater part of the trade in
Photographic supplies in the United
States, on a capitalization of s5.OO0GC0,
equally divided between preferred and
common stock. The company last year
paid per cent on the preferred and 10
per cent on the common stock.
These witnesses testified that by the or
ganization of this company the expenses
were reduced. but that more travelling
men were employed. These men are large
" engaged in demonstrating to phOtogra-
pliers the use of the company's goods. 1t
was denied that the company has mo-
nopoIy of the trade and as far as the
witnesses could see, no injury had re-
suited to the trade or the public by the
formation of the company.
Since the consolidation of the company,
Mr.. Abbott said. other lines of manufac-
ture had been taken up, including many
lines of supplies which were then pur-
chased from other firms Its goods sold
for higher prices than those made by 5 1Ine
of the competing companies. but this was
not found to be drawback after photog-
raphers were familiar with the use of
them. MIR Abbott denied th3t the COM
pany was trust in any sense. 1t con-
troIled over half of the output of photo
graphic paper, but he declined to give
the figures on the sale of this or of other
material He agreed to consult with the
other officers of the company and furnish
the figures if the company agreed, but
ne did not care to do so at present, as he
might give the companys competitors
some advantage. To this Mr.. Hubbell as
scented.
Mr. Abbott instanced the case of a COM
petitor who claimed that he bought his
raw materials for less than the Aristo-
type Company and made better paper,
which he sold for less money, and yet
he complained ne was being driven out
of the market by the trust Mr.. Abbott
could not see how the trlIst-made goods
could drive out a cheaper and at the
same time better class of goods. There
were many companies, he said which
handled Photographic supplies. and it
would be impossible for the AristOtype
Company, If it were so inclined, to throttle
competition.
The sales of Photographic supplies, in
Guiding cameras. paper. and other arti-
Giles, was steadily increasing owing to the
interest taken in amateur work and the
ease with which amateurs could take pic
lures. The price of cameras had been
reduced since the formation of the COM
pany in 1899. He thought that while con-
solidation reduced the cost to the con-
sumner and enhanced the profits OF the
company IL did not interfere with individ-
ual competition
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-12
CoNFERS WITH MIR. M'KINLEY.
Mr.. Roosevelt One of the Presidents
Early Callers.

Vice President Roosevelt is an early
riser. Yesterday morning he called at the
White House before the President had
entered his office. The President came in
Immediately, however. and the two men
had a short conference. BY calling early
Mr.. Roosevelt had an opportunity to talk
with Mr.. Mckinley before the long line
of Senators arrived The Vice President
expects to leave Washington tomorrow
or Thursday and return to his home at
Osyter Bay.
Senator Teller was at the White House
yesterday and presented his colleague. Mr.
Patterson, the newly elected Senator from
Colorado. The President yesterday shook
hands with a delegation of fifty Christian
Endeavorers from New Haven, Conn.