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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-06
INTERSTATE TROLLEY LINE
To Be Built Between Augusta, Ga,
and Aiken, :. G.


AUGUSTA, Ga, April 5.-The petition
for incorporation of the Augusta and
Aiken Electric railway has been fled in
Columbia, S. O., and James U. Jackson,
general agent of the Seaboard Air Line,
says there is ample capital behind the
enterprise. Leading electric traction
experts will be at work in two weeks
surveying the line and making esti-
mates.
The same parties, who are interested,
in the railroad to Aiken, also propose to
develop North Augusta, across the Sa-
vannah river, and the present North
Augusta Land company is to be merged
in the North Augusta Electric and Inn
provement company.
Aiken is 10 miles from Augusta and
three factory towns-Langley, Bath and
Warrenville-as well as North Augusta,
lie between.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-06
WaterwOrKs anu sew craze.

COLUMBIA, S. O., April 5-Freehold-
ers of this city are signing petitions
looking to the issue of $500, 900 in bonds
for new waterworks and sewerage.
There is opposition to the issue of bonds
by private interests A syndicate wishes
to undertake the Improvements as pri-
vate ENTERPRISE
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-06
Cotton Acreage 6eductIon.

COLUMBIA, S. O., April 5. THE farm
ers of Bamberg county are the first to
act on the cotton acreage reduction.
They have resolved not to increase this
year their cotton acreage and to ''plant
fully as many acres in provision cropG
as they do in cotton" and that they
will diversity their crops as much as
possible, so as to reduce the acreage Of
cotton
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-06
TO SIGN OR NOT TO
SIGN AGREEMENT 5?
That Is Burning Question For
China to Decide.
SHE MAY YET RECONSIDER

Believed That, In Spite of Her Refu-
fusal, She VIII Soon Realize That 1t
Is Better to Sign Some Kind of
Agreement-RussiaI In No Hurry.
PEKING, April 5.-The members of
the Russian legation claim to know
nothing regarding the Manchurian
question. The feeling at the other lega-
tions is that Russia is bound to do some
thing or lose prestige with the Chinese.
The members of the British legation in
Peking are satisfied that in spite of
China's refusal to sign the Manchurian
agreement she will soon sign something
similar, in order to protect her own in
terests and have even nominal control
Of Manchuria, which is now practically
Russian territory.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-06
The old Familiar Story.

Conner. Ga, April 1.-Two negro
children were burned to death near this
place yesterday. Their parents left
them locked up in the house, which
cauQht IRE Ia seRs unknown way. and
botks schildyen we're QgenAtsd.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-06
THE MAN WITH A COL

is u nuisance to others as well as suffer
er himself. hs u inexcusable when he
can find so many excellent remedies
at Hudson's drugstore. True, if he
has asthma, it's doubtful if he can OBJ
tain a perfect cure. But it's rather late
for asthma, and there is relief for even
that annoying aiIment. Stop sneezing
and coughing. Stop at Hudson's and
getIsomething tolhelp you out.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-06
New Judges Amounted.

RALEIGH, April 5. 5.-Governor Aycock
has appointed two of the new judges pro
vided for in the act increasing the judi
cial districts to Is, these being George
A. Jones of Franklin for the sixteenth
district and Francis d. Winston OF
Windsor for the second district.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
The Army.

It is not necessary 10 increase our army beyond it's present size at this time. But 1t is necessary to keep 1t at the highest point of efficiency. The individual units who as officers and enlisted men com pose this army, are, we have good req son to believe, at least as efficient as these of any other army in the entire training Is of a kind to insure the high est possible expression of power to these units when acting in combination.
 The conditions of modern war are such as to make an infinitely heavier demand than ever before upon the individual character and capacity. of the officer and the enlisted man. and to make 1t far more difficult for men to act together with effect At present the fighting must be done In extended order which means that each man must act for himself and at the same time act in combination in the old-fashioned elbow -to-elbow touch. Under such conditions a few men of the highest excellence are worth more than many men without the special skill which training applied to men of exceptional physique and morale. But nowadays the most valuable fighting man and the most difficult to perfect is the rif1eman
 The proportion of our cavalry regi- ments has wisely been increased. The American cavalryman trained to man. oeuvre and fight with equal facility on foot and on horseback. Is the best type of soldier for general purposes now to be found in the world. The ideal caval- can fight on foot as effectively as the best infantryman, and who is in addi- tion unsurpassed in the care and man. agement of his horse and in his ability to fight on horseback.
 A general staff should be created. As for the present staff and supply depart ments, they should be filled by details from the line. the men so detailed re- turning after a while to their line duties. It is very undesirable to have the senior grades of the army composed of men
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04

people. but to create for this new indus try the best possible social and industrial conditions; and this requires that we not only understand the existing situation. but avail ourselves of the best experience of the time in the solution of it's prob- lems A careful study should be made, both by the Nation and the States, of the irrigation laws and conditions here and abroad. Ultimately it will probably be necessary for the Nation to cooperate with the several arid States in proportion as these States by their legislation and administration show themselves fit to re- reive if
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
Pacific Cable.

I call your attention most earnestly to the crying need of a cable to Hawaii and the Philippines. to be continued from the Philippines to points in Asia. We should not defer a day longer than nec- sary the construction of such a cable. It is demanded not merely for commercial but for political and military considera- tions.
 Either the Congress should immediately provide for the construction of a gov ernment cable, or else an arrangement should be made by which like advanta- ges to those accruing from a government cable may be secured to the government by contract with a private cable com- pany.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
he path of the lns.urrscso .ns the Ia

the path of the insuryscto and the la drone.
 The hearticst praise is due to large numbers of the natives of the islands for their steadfast loyalty. The Macabebes have been conspicuous for their cour- mend that the Secretary of War be em- powered to take some systematic action in the wsy of aiding those of these men who are crippled in the service and the families of those who are killed.
 The time has come when there should be additional legislation for the Philip pines. Nothing better can be done for the islands than to introduce industrial enterprises. Nothing would beneft them so much as throwing them open to in dustrial development The connection between idleness and mischief is prover- bial and the opportunity to do remunera- tive work is one of the surest preventives of war. Of course no business man will go into the Philippines unless 1t Is to his interest to do so; and it is immensely to the interest of the islands that he should go in. It is therefore necessary that the Congress should pass laws by which the resources of the islands can be de- veloped; so that franchises 0or limited terms of years) can be granted to com panies doing business in them, and every encouragement be given to the incoming of bushes men of every kind.
 Not to permit this Is to do wrong to the Philippines. The franchises must be granted and the business permitted only under regulations which will guar antee the islands against any kind of inn proper exploitation. But the vast natural wealth of the islands must be developed. and the capital willing to develop it must be given the opportunity. The field must be thrown open to individual enter prise. which has been the real factor in the development of every region over which our flag has flown. It is urgently necessary to enact suitable laws dealing with general transportation. mining. banking. currency. homesteads. and the use and owhership of the lands and timber. These laws will give free play to industrial enterprise; and the commer- cial development which will surely follow will afford to the people of the islands the best proofs of the sincerity of our de- sire to aid them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04

Continued on Page 11.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04

may be upIifted together, and we rejoice over the good fortune of any Of them. ws gladly hail their material prosperity and political stability, and are concerned and alarmed if any of them fall into industrial or political chaos. We do not wish to see any Old World military pow CT grow up on this continent, or to be compelled to become a military power ourselves. The people of the Americas can prosper best If left to work out th:ir own salvation in their own way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
Still Troubles Ahead.

There are still troubles ahead in the islands. The insurrection has become an affair of local banditt and marauders, who deserve no higher regard than the brigands of portions of the Old World.
 Encouragement. direct or indirect, to these tnsurrectos stands on the same footing as encouragement to hostile In dians in the days when We still had In- dian wars. Exactly as our aim is to give to the Indian who remains peaceful the fullest and amplest consideration, but to have it understood that We will show no weakness If he goes on the war path, so We must make it evident, unless we are false to our own traditions and to the demands of civilization and hu- man!ty, that while we will do everything in our power fer the Filipino who is peaceful we will take the sternest measures with the Filipino who follows
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
More Ships Needed.

There should be no cessation in the work of completing our navy. So far ingenuity has been wholly unable to de- wise a substitute for the great war craft whose hammering guns beat out the mas tery of the high seas. It is unsafe and unN,ise not to provide this year for sev- ersI additional battleships and heavy ar mored cruisers, with auxiliary and lish,rr craft in proportions; for the exact num- bers and character l refer you to the re- port of the Secretary of the Navy But there Is something we need even more than additional ships. and this is addi- tionaT officers and men. To provide battle- ships and cruisers and then lay them up, with the expectation of leaving them un- manned until they are needed in actual war. would be worse than folly; it would be A crime against the nation.
 To send any warship against a compe- tent enemy unless those aboard it have hean trained by years of actual sea serV- ice including incessant gunnery practice would he to invite not merely disaster hut tbe Interest shame and humiliation Four thousand additional seamen and one thousand additional marines should be provided: and an increase in the officers shouId he provided by making a large ad- dition to the classes at Annapolis. There is one small matter which should be mentioned in connection with Annapolis. The pretentious and unmaaning tltie or naval cadet" should be abolished; the title of "midshipman." full Of historic as- sociation. should be restored.
 Even in time of peace warshtp should he nsed until it wears out, for only so can it be kept fit to respond to any emer-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
STORYETTES.
Gas Over the Telephone.

A lady of the West village de-
cided to have a telephone placed
in her house. At about the same
time she also decided to have a
gas range put in. After a family
consultation she instructed her
daughter to order the telephone.
In. the conversation both the
telephone and gas range had been
spoken of, and the daughter
apparently became somewhat con-
fused, as will be seen by the
following letter which she wrote
ordering the telephone: "Dear
Sir-We have decided to have a
telephone placed in the house.
Please give it your Immediate
attention. The house is not piped
for gas, but the street is. WIN
sted Conn Citizen.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
EXCHANGES.

Lady Henry Somerset has en-
listed a number Of pretty girls in
the temperance cause and they
will deliver lectures all over Eng
land. If she could conscript some
of the Yankee chorus girls it
might help.-Minneapolis Times.
It is often said of man enjoy
ing a sinecure that he has nothing
to do but draw his salary. A man
was Frustrated by heat in Mime
apolis the other day while doing
that very thing. Minneapolis
journal.
The Chicago sociologist who
has undertaken to educate tramps
to battle possesses as much I'M
daunted courage as that which
nerves explorers to go in search OF
the north pole. And his success
is just as uncertain.-Denver
Post.
The ministers at Pekin are in a
deadlock, but that is better than
being in a dead lot, which was
their best prospect few months
ago.-St. Paul News.
The fact that Mrs. Frank Leslie
declines to explain how and where
and through whom she has &C
quired the title of La Baronne de
Bazuz should occasion no surprise.
A good many American women
who have secured foreign titles
have very little to show for them.
City Star.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
The Professors Foresight.

Professor Frederick Won Mar
tens, who holds the chair Of inter
national law in the St. Petersburg
university and is frequent rep
resentative Of the car in legal
councils of moment, is not a
|.Russiar citizen, nor even a Rus
sian subject, but a philosophic
German. He is notable linguist
and author, and at the Venezuela
arbitration conference in Paris,
where he read the decision Of the
commission, he had a pleasant
fashion of addressing each dele
gate in his own language: One Of
the English jurists wondered how
the professor was able to keep up
his knowledge of so many modern
tongues.
The professor replied: ''It is
self defense. You see, in case [
lose my chair [ wish to be pre-
pared for any offer you foreigners
may make Saturday Evening
Post.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

ACCORDING to the press dispatches, the young
German prince is almost human at any rate
he is not nearly divine as his father. He is dis
playing many boyish and good natured traits and is
endearing himself to the hearts of the altogether
human populace. He seems to have above all
things the gift of laughter and in this differs from
his austere and august parent, whose bunch is
dignity.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
A Historic Spot Marked.

The site of the "old fort" where
the first settlers of Springfield
Mass, took refuge from the
Indians, has been marked with 9
bronze tablet. The plate is two
feet wide and three feet high.
bearing on either side the Pynchon
arms in relief of the original fort
N. Y. Sun.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

THERE is another fact that is worth remember
ing, that not all people who supposed to be free
are happy; you find misery at every turn and once
in while you will find little bit of Gods acre, in
the most unlocked for places'- Gilbert Hubbard.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

LAST week we had occasion to call attention to
the enterprise of Wisconsin weekly and this week
it devolves upon to make mention of the "Arkan-
Thomas Cat; the most piratical sheet that flies
the bones and skull. Everything is loot for
the Thomas Cat' and the old law about honor
among thieves while it is respected by most convics
is considered obsolete and out of fashion by the Hot
Springs editor. In its issue of July A. the
Thomas Cat'' has taken unto itself column Of
editorial matter that appeared in The MIRROR a
month ago. It is needless to say that The MIRROR
gets credit for it. This is most unfair play, be-
cause the public is always hypercritica regarding
anything that emanates from prison. and the
average reader, failing to notice the dates the
two papers, would take it for granted that we and
not the Thomas Cat" are the plagiarists
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
NO TIC &.

ALL PERSONS receiving copies Of THE MIRROR who are
regular lists will please consider such as
IT, after reading, conclude that THE
MIRROR worthy of patronage send name to this
Office trial subscription at rates published above
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
Kilograms.
BY JAN O'RURICK,

their ambition seldom have any,
thing left when they get there.
Don't be too profuse in making
promises and you will have fewer
lies to account for.
One can't always Judge a man
by his clothes, as the burglar said
when he donned the bishops
Sunday suit.
A selfish person has very little
room for gratitude.
And now the political hen is
cackling over new brood Matched
in Ohio.
10 enjoy the comforts Of life one
must become familiar with the.
discomforts.
Cheerfulness will prevent many
one from sinking in the troubled.
waters of despair.
While it may rain on the just
and unjust alike, there appears to.
be quite number Of people in
some states that don't belong to.
either class.
One can get time without pro-.
crastination.
A mule is always in debt to you
when there's kick coming.
Carrie Nation is not the only
one making it hot for Kansas.
The contagion is never catching
when dollars is the disease.
The heather will dread Chris
tianity more than the devil, if in
IDENTITIES continue to be the
fashion with missionaries.
When people fail to pay atten--
ton to freak preachers and freak.
reformers there will be fewer freaks.
living on other peoples labor.
A little water and little freeze,
and the iceman is ready to reap.
his harvest and skin his customers.
When capital obtains a fair
amount of labor at the lowest cost
it enriches one and makes slaves
of hundred.
No man is so wise but that some
woman can make him a little
wiser.
He that makes haste to do a
wrong usually gets long time to
feel sorry for it.
Music hath charms, and sundry
other things, when the wrong
person gets monkeying with the
band wagon.
Playing policy don't always OBJ
tain the price.
An Indian wouldn't know
whether a girl was giving him
the goo-goo eye, or was just blink
ing as result of swallowing her
chewing gum.
People who haven't time to do
things should take trip to our
village and lay in a stock. We
have quite an assortment of job.
lots on the give-away counter.
Whether person pays rent or
not, one has cordial invitation to
return to Saltwater at any old
time. And bring along the folks
and stay awhile.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

WHY do people wait until other people are dead
before they send their flowers? 1t would be much
better way to drop blossom occasionally for per-
haps that would help some to live.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

WITH the present issue The MIRROR celebrates
another anniversary of it's birth and enters into the
fifteenth year of it's existence. There can be no
better manner to start the than by thanking
many friends for the generous support they have
shown in the past and to request them to con-
tinue to be with in the future. Fourteen years
ago this little paper started by the inmates of
this prison pastime, and it has been managed
exclusively by them since. All the work
connected with it, excepting the actual printing is
done within the walls of the prison. We realize of
course that it's life would have been very short had
it not been for the cooperation and support of the
prison officials and the public at large-to both of
whom most grateful
The aim and object of The MIRROR is to profit
ably employ the leisure moments and to stimulate
the mental activities of the prisoners and in this it
has been eminently successful In the course of it's
life thousands of men have whiled away dragging
hours writing contributions to the paper, and we
believe that it has proven itself to be of educational
as we'll as recreative value. If while accomplish
ing it's end, it has also given portion of the
outside world some Insight into the mind and WAYS
of those who compose this colony, thereby perhaps
proving to them that man may be convict and a
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
man at the time-why then have all the
more to be grateful and to start in the new
year with renewed determination and purpose.

EVERY newspaper office has one or more "string
fends" connected with it. These haunt the
composing room and when the galley proofs have
been taken they seize and devour them with gusto
If there any paragraphs that the string fend
thinks might have escaped the Associated Press
WRITER'S and that might possibly be of interest to the
outside world, he sends queries to every paper he
thinks will purchase. He is paid by the column
and an enterprising reporter with a good line of
papers his string often assists his salary very
materially in the of year. If the ''string
fend" sends out nothing but news his business is
perfectly Legitimate, but the temptation to pipe
to write imaginary taes-is strong and consequently
he is seldom veracious.
A man named Himan, member of the string
ing fraternity residing at Albany, No. has recently
come to grief through his anxiety to create news.
About ten days ago lovely story emanated from
his fertile brain and was wired all over the country
The tale rivaled Marx Twains frog story. It was
to the effect that the children of one McCurry fed a
quantity of dynamite to pet frog and then threw a
tool box on the innocent creature, thereby blowing
up the house and killing of the infants.
In course Of time Mr.. McCurry, who is un-
married. frogess i1rascible and childless read the
yarn and it made him just naturally SORE The more
he thought of it the he got and at last he made
up his mind to get with his traducer. He pur-
chased quantity Of dynamite and stealing to Hill
mans house after dark, blew one corner out of it.
This, he said, giving the aspiring young writer
IA taste Of higher journalism. What Hilman did
and said when he returned to his ruined domicile is
not record but it is safe to say that he gave up
making copy out of McCurry then and there
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

WOMAN with will has ninety-n separate
and distinct ways of ripping man up the back
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

THROW away idle hopes; come to thine own
aid, if thou carest at all for thyse while it is in
thy power-Marcus Aurelius.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

Beggars are not choosers, but
some will ask for pie for a that
an a. that.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

If the tramps would only go on a.
strike and go to work, the trusts.
would never call out the police.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-02-21
AUGUST FLOWER,

at is a surprising fact, y says Prof
Houton, that in my travels in all parts
OF the world for the past ten years,
have met more people who have used
Green's August Flower for dyspepsia,
deranged liver and stomach, and for
constipation, than any other remedy. l
find for tourists and statesmen, or for
persons filling office positions, where
headaches and general bad feelings from
irregular habits exist, that Green's
August Flower is grand remedy. 1t
does not injure the system by frequent
use, and is excellent for sour stomach
and Indigestion" Sample bottles free
at North Yakima Drug Store, A. d.
Sloan, proprietor.
Sold by all dealers in all civilized
countries.
Get Green's Prize Almanac.