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The Washington times., 1901-09-24
These neetions for Dc.

Kings best sewing cotton; 1O0-yard
spools black sewing silk; best make
darning cotton in all colors on balls;
feather stitched braid: English pins;
all size safety pins; stocking darners;
best make hooks and eyes; any of
these for &c.
The Washington times., 1901-09-24
Childs' aprons. Csc.

Lot of children's school aprons OF
cross-barred muslin; with embroider-
ed fronts and lace trimmed straps; in
sizes 6 to II years; which are 39c val
ueS will be sold at 25c today
Another lot of children's extra fine
India linon aprons; Mother Hubbard
style with embroidery trimmed bre-
teiles; with wide hens lnr
and strings; instead of AQS
15c; to go for. or.-...-.....-..........
The Washington times., 1901-09-24
Unbleached sheeting, 45c.

Case of unbleached sheeting; SO
inches wide and of extra good quali-
ty; to go today for 47sc yard.
The Washington times., 1901-09-24
THE SENATORS DROP BOTH
Their Listless Playing Gives
Cleveland Two Games.

Hfunders by the Locals. Combined
With Inability to Hit. Responsible
for the Loss Of IA Double Header
Lee bntteG Hard in First Contest.
Yesterdays Games.
american League.)
Cleveland, G; Washington, g.
Cleveland. Z: Washington, 3.
Baltimore, 3; Milwaukee, l..
Baltimore, 5; Milwaukee, (.
Philadelphia, ); Chicago, 3.
Detroit, 5; Boston, 4.
Detroit, 9; Boston, z.
CNational League.A
Pittsburg. :; New York. /.
Brooklyn. 25; Cincinnati. G.
Philadelphia. 8: Chicago. l.
st. Louis, 8; Boston, 3.
The Washington times., 1901-09-24
BREWERS RALLIES USELESS.

Orioles Tuke Roth Games by the
Same Srorc.
BALTIMORE. Sept. 23-The home team
won both games today. curiously enough.
by the same score in each contest. MIL
waukee made noble but ineffective rallies
The Washington times., 1901-09-24
ST. LOUIS.

1,yo-basa hits - Wallace. Heidrick.
Three-base hits-Kruger. Cooley. Wallace.
The Washington times., 1901-09-24
A7c for child's 75c trim'd
f1N and untrimmed hats.

Eight STYLES of misses and children's
trimmed and untrimmed hats. soft
crowns, round crowns and square
crowns; in red. blue, brown, CASTOR
and grey; 47c instead of 55c.
The Washington times., 1901-09-24

70 women's black taffeta silk skirts,
in two styles. will go on sale today
at S.9S. One style is tucked all over
with ficunce-another style has four
row velvet tdFa fiounce-you cannot
equal them elsewhere for less than
s12. Nnoice for S.9S.
The Washington times., 1901-09-24

Inr for the choice of COO wom-
AHk ems dark Pc rcale Wrappers
which arrived Saturday
They are braid trimmed and
their skirts are generously full and
most thoroughly finished.
The Conservative, 1901-08-01
FARM, STOCK AND HOME.

Any reader of The CONSERVATIVE,
who so desires, may receive for two
months free, copy of the Farm, Stock
and Home, very enterprising and
worthy journal, devoted to the agricul-
tural interests of the Northwest, and
published at Minneapolis, Mimi. In adj
dition to this, anyone renewing their
subscription to The CONSERVATIVE, and
so specifying, will receive the same
journal free for one year. This is an
offer which will no doubt interest
great many of our up-to-date rural
readers.
If you wish to receive the Farm,
Stock and Home free for two months,
kindly kindly send your name and ad-
dress at once to the circulation depart
ment of The CONSERVATIVE. If you
wish to receive it for one year, send
your renewal and a request for the
Farm, Stock and Home to the circula-
tion department of The CONSERVATIVE,
with $3.50.
The Conservative, 1901-08-01

first-class posts worth 25 cents each.
$40 trees removed make 1,020 posts,
worth 1866, being double original cost
with total expenses, leaving the planta-
tion fully paid, including twenty years
interest and taxes.
The remaining ITO trees will, by the
twentieth year, produce $50 cross-ties
worth, at 60 cents, $51O, or $50 feet Of
lumber per tree, 42,5O0 feet, b. M,
which, at 500 per 1000, is $3.50.
The value of the land having been
greatly improved, and permanent in
come assured from the continued
growths Gas the trees are quickly re-
newed from the stumps) equal to capi-
tai investment of 81 900 at per cent.
interest.
The Conservative, 1901-08-01

that they are vice-gerents of providence
carrying out the DEGREES and destinies
of the Allwise, who, until very recently
was compelled to forward the civiliza-
tion Of mankind unaided. The consti-
tuition being taught to know it's place
and keep it, has removed a great OBJ
stacle from the path of the Almighty
and "destiny' and soft jobs can walk
hand in hand in the dependencies. The
administration following the example of
the patriarchs will "make covenant
with the Most High" and agree to not
interfere with "destiny" so long as the
soft jobs are as the sands of the sea for
multitude.
L "sEt tn, Brute!" is said to have
been the exclamation of the peerless
when Charlie Towne became Satisfied
that silver is dead" 1t is alleged that
Charlie is making good money in New
York, and does not want any foolish
ness to reduce it to silver basis. How
often Bryan must think of those words
of Ney when Napoleon, on the retreat
of Moscow, asked him, "Where is the
rear guard?" 81 am the rear guard"
said the old hero as he remembered that
all but him had fallen in that awful re-
treat.
| AS Bryan looks back and sees Hogg,
of Texas, bloated millionaire, Petit
grew, the head and front of soulless
corporation, Charlie Towne forgetting
the "masses" as he rolls in the lap of
luxury, the New York Journal gone
over to the gold mammon, the holy
prophet, Croker, an exile in the land of
the Philistines, Tillman politically dead
from base imitation of his leaders,
resignation, and so have fallen all those
who once walked the echoes when the
crown Of thorns was torn from the
sacred head to do duty in the vilest ag-
gregation ever gathered in America for
political plunder.
Well, can Bryan pose before the pub
lie after his political Moscow, and say,
II am the rear guard" with all the en-
phasis upon the rear.
T. M. S.
The Conservative, 1901-08-01
uNcLAss1F1ED.

UNCLASSIFIED.
People never realized the terrible ef-
fects of the drouth until Missouri sug-
gested it was time to pray.
The Ohio democratic convention left
Bryan looking very much as if he had
held seance with Carrie Nation.
The Commoner says: "Ohio republi-
cans have learned that it is not their
part to think, but to accept" A close
attention to the rumbling would have
caused the peerless to notice that Ohio
democrats have the ability to think and
the Judgment to act. Their attachment
to ancient history is not pronounced.
Last year the republicans insisted that
the price of wool was directly caused by
the tariff. Today they assure us that
the price is depressed by "destiny," the
''will of God" and other we'll known at
tributes of republican politicians.
"The identity of the democratic can
didate for president in 1904 is not yet
known, but 1t is known that
who ever he is, he will not
be democrat nominated by populists
for populist purposes only" The above
is stolen bodily from the Commoner
with the change of but two words. It
is gratifying to find that journal come
within two of being right
Mr.. Bryan does not seem to compre-
hend how our currency has increased
500, 100000 in amount of circulation
when he had figured that initiation was
the only method of increase. Once set
tied that he and his vagaries were rele-
gated to the shelves of the antiquary,
O0,ooo,OOo of sound money came out of
hiding, where it was driven by the popu-
listic tornado of 1890.
Pennsylvania is the most intensely re-
publican state in the union, and Phila-
delphia it's most republican city. AS
we gaze at them, can we blame Croker
for rolling his eyes to Heaven with that
II am holier than thou" look! Quay
is doing his best to make Croker respect
able, thing the Almighty failed to do.
A corporation has been organized un-
der the laws of New Jersey to do busi-
The Conservative, 1901-08-01


tion are the laws of New Jersey.
The republicans are very nervous for
fear that any agitation of the question
of taxation will unsettle values and de-
moralize business. One would scarcely
have expected the great slump in the
stock market that followed the July 1st
abolition of tax on, chewing gum.
Gradually the public are beginning to
see Kruger in his TreaH light. A stub
born, selfish, avaricious, brute. With
his twenty five millions Of T. political
plumber he is safely housed in Belgium,
and refuses to listen to the pleadings of
Mrs. Botha, who has come thousands of
miles to advocate the cessation Of war
that means only death and desolation to
those who did not follow the cowardly
president in his fight. Even his poor
wife, who had honestly struggled by his
side for years, was left to die alone amid
the horrors of a useless and hopeless war
While his precious body and fortune
are safe he cries frantically for all 9th
ers to risk their lives and sink their all
in the struggle. From the very outset
of the trouble his obstinacy and covet-
uousness produced, he never ceased to
quote pious psalms and plunder. At
the first approach Of danger he resigned
his commission, but left not one dollar
of his ill-gotten wealth to aid the cause
he claims to represent. Benedict Ar
mold and Aaron Burr at least had the
imaginary or real excuse that their great
services to the country had been re-
Quilted by neglect and abuse. Kruger
was simply a South African populist
who had the temporary power to attach
by legislative robbery every species ofsuc-
cessful enterprise within his grasp. Cor
rupt enough to amass a fortune of $685.,
OOO,O in office, coward enough to flee,
and audacity enough to pose as stand
ard bearer of liberty.
Even from Mr.. Bryan's statement it
is evident that Aguinaldo and his
friends thought the contract would be
more binding if they could plead a
valuable consideration, A man who
would not make speech in behalf of
his own candidacy except on @. O. D.
basis, cannot blame the poor Filipinos
if they wanted to bolster up the prom
ises of the Kansas City platform with
those tangible beauties so dear to the
prudent peerless.
It looks now as if nature, resenting
the presumption of the administration
was about to give us an object lesson,
whereby we may judge whether pros
perity is the result of her bounties or
those dealt out to the steel and sugar
infants by the tariff, that well known
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-12-23
THE PRESIDENT IN EARNEST,

A very large proportion. If not ma
jority OF his fellow citizens. differ decided
" with President Roosevelt on some OF
the most important public issues. but there
Is one subject on which his views and
evident intentions are heartily approved
by the people generally, regardless Of
party lines or affiliations.
We refer TO the civil service. President
Roosevelt Is an honest, ardent and con-
sIstent advocate OF the principles OF civil
service reform. In his former public SER
vice he has done much TO defend ana pro-
mote those principles and there is every
rason 70 believe that as president he will
make every possible endeayor TO mako
the letter and the spirit Of the civil SER
vice law effective,
In fact, he has already taken very inn
portant step In this direction by issuing a
rule that win increase greatly the dihi-
Guilty and danger OF violating either the
civil service law OF the orders Of the civil
service commission that are designed to
enforce Il,
Unless Il has back Of Il president
who Is really = friend Of the law and is
dstsrmiDsd 70 see Ste provisions carried
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-12-23

public highways and fostered among the
people the determination to do better by
themselves in the future by the enact
ment OF laws that will compel the coung
ties to spend some money on public roads.
Governor Longino, of Mississippi, took
high ground in his inaugural and other
addresses in pointing out the absolute
necessity for better public highways and
has enlisted the services of the best men
Of the state in the agitation for good
roads. The executive committee Of the
Mississippi Good Roads association viii
meet at jackson. Miss, on December OF
this year for the purpose OF framing
good roads law to be presented to the
next session Of the legislature for pass
age.
In Louisiana there Is an active move
ment for the formation of local good roads
associations, the president OF each OF
which local association is to be ex-oflci0
member OF the State Good Roads asso-
citation. This complete organization should
be effected within the next 50 days. It Is
then the purpose to call a meeting OF
these delegates in New Orleans for the
promotion Of good roads work before the
meeting OF their legislature. which is BIZ
ennial and next occurs in May, 1902. There
is a decided Improvement in the good
roads sentiment throughout the various
parishes Of the state as the state has
already given a great deal OF leeway in
the matter OF taxes for public roads and
as the good roads sentiment improves
these taxes are being levied. It takes
some time to do this, but the work is go
ing on and It is believed that within six
months much good work win be done.
In Illinois there are but two stops made
and. owing largely TO the extreme heat
and dry and dusty character Of the roads
to ha worked over. the experiment was
not as successful as II would have been
under more favorable conditions.
Taking as a whole the information from
the different states through which this
good roads train passed. it is fair to as
sumo that the movement is well started
looking toward the Improvement OF the
roads and the more intelligent and con-
sistent method OF road building. This
work is largely for the future. and It win
take some time before practical results
can be produced that would demonstrate
whether the trip Of the good roads train
over the Illinois Central railroad was q
conspicuous success or not, At the pres
ent writing it would seem TO have bean
a success,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-12-23
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A bill for railroad across Alaska, $50 miles
long has been introduced In congress-
Two eastern shoe manufacturing firms are
to establish immense shoe factories in Ire
land.
1t is estimated that the bank clearances in
the United States this year win reach the
total OF S1l7 0o0 900. 900. by far the largest ag
gregate ever reported
A Russian woman who died recently In st.
Petersburg left a library OF eighteen thousand
volumes. In one way this library Is unique.
OF all its works not single one is by a
male author
Texas proposes to make a great show Of
her resources at the St. Louis Worlds Fair.
Governor Sayers has appointed commission
OF ffty-one members to raise, and they are
talking of raising 100000 for the exhibit.
That Is not a half-bad story coming from
Texas that last week the manager of an
'fUncle Tom Cabin company loaned the
town officials three bloodhounds to run down
some criminals who had escaped Jail, and
that the bad men captured the dogs and
have started an "Uncle Tom" show Of their
own.
The statehood fight down in Indian Terri
tory and Oklahoma is growing interesting.
The Oklahoma people want the two terri
tories merged into a single state, pointing
out that they would make one compact and
populous commonwealth. The other folks,
however, do not desire to lose their identity,
fearing that Oklahoma would get the name
and the credit OF the statehood.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-12-23
OUR PHILIPPINE MONEY.

The government Of 100000 people ten
thousand miles from our capital involves
many problems that will necessarily tax
the craftsmanship and try the patience OF
the United States.
Where we consider that these people
have been brought under our. control by
force and must be held subject by force
for an indefinite time to come; that they
differ from US radically in race. religion,
ideas and traditions, that they have in
stincts and habits that are very difacult
Of assimilation TO our civilization, the diff
ficulties OF the proposition will be seen
TO multiply and become more complex.
The question of a currency for the Phil
ippines is presented in the recent report
OF the secretary Of war by Mr.. Charles
A. Conant, an expert in finance who was
sent to those islands as special com
missioner to inquire and report what sort
OF banking and currency would be best
adapted to those islands.
Mr.. Conant recommends the provision
OF a special silver coin for use in the Phil
ippInes which viii be legal tender for 30
cents In the gold money OF the United
States.
The quantity of this money will be regu-
lated by the government OF the islands
that we have established. This coin. to be
known as the peso, viii be coined at
Manila and will be divided into 100 parts
to be known as centavos. All this, Of
course. provided the Conant plan be
adopted.
This system is based upon the very prac-
teal idea that the Filipinos should be
provided with currency similar to that
with which they are already familiar, and
at the same time bearing a simple rela-
ton to the currency Of the United States.
All coins provided especially for the
Philippines win be maintained at parity
with gold so that the gold standard shall
prevail in our insular possessions as well
as in the United states proper.
Mr.. Conant recommends that national
banks be established In the islands as they
may be needed. and have the privilege OF
establishing branch banks both in the
Philippines and the United States. These
viii be authorized to supply paper cur
rency, properly protected, but their main
uses would be in the facilitation Of ex-
change.
The plan Is said TO be viewed with favor
by the treasury department and members
of congress who have given 1t special
consideration.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-12-23

General Joe Wheeler discusses in Sun
days New York Journal the subject OF
how education will solve the negro prob
lem, and in doing so he lays down four
propositions:
First-That It is idle to consider whether
the presence OF the negro In this country Is
70 its advantage or disadvantage. He Is plant
ed In this land and he viii remain
human beings in this country to remain IN
bad. designing and intriguing men. who for
personal advantage work upon their supersu-
lions, prejudices and the worst elements OF
Third-That there is much good in the gen
eral makeup OF the negro and that efforts
should be directed to give him that kind OF
education which will cultivate and develop the
good, and correct and repress that which Is
Fourth-That all EFFORTS to enforce or encour-
age social equality are detrimental to the ne
race to scrupulously protect him in every legal
right.
General Wheeler then calls attention to
the fact that the south has been most
liberal in providing for the negroes edu-
cation.
The conviction OF the people OF the
SOUTH he says, as to the Importance OF
educating the negro is shown by the fact
that in many localities the law makes no
discrimination whatever in appropriations
for white and colored schools, giving to
the colored every advantage which is &C
corded to the white.
The people of Alabama, he shows, IN
framing their laws have been especially
scrupulous in giving the colored race
these advantages. and during the last
thirty years the southern states have ex-
pended s115, 954, 2Ss for negro education.
1t has been my hope that this liberal
ity to the colored people by the whites
Of the south would be appreciated by phi
lanthropists of the north, and that In any
| Of adrr
poses in that section OF our land the gen.
| erous donors would show at least as much
interest in providing means for the edu-
cation Of the poorer whites as they do for
the colored race.
General Wheeler then brings out the fact
that slavery and, afterwards, the eman-
cipation of the negro under nl-advised
conditions, forced upon the south a prob
lem with which It has been difficult to
cope.
That many Of the souths great states
men of early times doubted that negroes
being held as property would be an ad-
vantage to that section is abundantly
proven.
The first settlers under Oglethorpe in
Georgia prohibited slavery for a period
of twenty years, and the repeal of the
law was secured by the influence of ship
| owners, who desired to extend the mar
ket for the sale OF slaves which they
brought from Africa.
Thomas Jefferson and other great
statesmen were very emphatic in their
opposition to the permanence of the In
stitution.
The constitutional convention which
framed the fundamental law under which
we live was largely dominated by south
ern men. Its president was George WASH
ington, Of Virginia, and the most promi-
nent and influential member was Thomas
Madison, of the same state
In all discussions upon the slavery oues-
ton the tendency of the southern states
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-12-23

out the civil service commission Is prac-
tically helpless. It's rulings may be disre-
garded with impunity and the law itself
made a farce. But when the provisions
of the law or the rulings Of the commits
sion are ignored the president may step
in and assert his authority.
This is Just what President Roosevelt
intends to da whenever the occasion for
such interference may arise. AS it is
clearly impossible for him to supervise
the working of the civil service system in
every instance, he has laid down a general
plan for the conduct of subordinate on
Gals that will make them very careful
to follow the civil service law and the de-
crees OF the commission.
Hereafter when any person is appointed
to an office IN the classified service, except
In strict compliance with law and with
due regard to merit and qualification for
the place as provided in the examinations
under the commission a very simple and
direct way is open for the removal Of
such appointee.
Whenever such an instance is brought
to the attention OF the commission It
must notify at once the head OF the de-
partment In which the violation Of the
rules has occurred.
That official must then take steps to re-
move the person who has got into office
contrary to the provisions OF the civil SER
vice law. If the removal Is not made
within thirty days the commission shall
notify the disbursting officer Of the divis-
ion that has been imposed upon to stop
the salary of the interloping appointee.
This is the most practical plan for Sc
curing thorough enforcement Of the civil
service law that has yet been devised and
will prove effectual In defeating the
schemes of spollsmen to slip favorites
into Office through the civil service bars
that have too often been purposely left
open. 1t viii protect meritorious office
holders who would be thrown out to make
places for applicants with superior polit-
zeal pull and it will serve notice upon many
officials who have been playing into the
hands of the spoilmen that they must
quit that vicious practice.
This rule Of President Roosevelt will
doubtless raise a howl from politicians
who have been running rough shod over
the civil service commission, but the coun-
try will commend it and the public service
will be immensely benefited by 1t.