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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
THE MARCUS ISLAND DISPUTE.

There is no probability of trouble
between this country and Japan about
Marcus island, though there was a
sensational report a day or two ago
that our government had ordered a
warship there to meet the Japan war
ship that was on it's way to the island.
If the question of Jurisdiction over
the island ever becomes serious it will
doubtless be referred to the Hague
court Of arbitration. This country and
Japan have always been good friends
and it is not probable that they will
fall out over the question of the own
ership of an island that is only a mile
and a half long, two-thirds of a mile
wide and sixty feet above sea level.
The territory in dispute is one of the
islands of the Pacific. and is about
1000 miles from Yokohama, in a direct
line between the latter place and the
Marshall group. 1t is claimed that
Americans discovered it nearly forty
years ago, and a Pacific navigator
named Rosehill. an American, asserts
that he took formal possession of it
there. 1t seems that it is rich in
guano, but worthless for any other
purpose. Capt. Rosehill decided to
take possession and work the guano
deposits, and for that purpose COM
piled with all of the preliminaries re-
CURED by our government to secure
ownership by right of discovery. Only
three months ago he filed in the State
Department a bond for $4,000. That
was before our government found out
that Japan claimed the island.
According to a statement made to
the State Department Japan annexed
the island a number of years ago. and
since Capt Rosehill took possession
in 1889 a party of Japanese have been
occupying it and working the guano
deposits.
Our government has sent no war
ship. Capt. Rosehill is on his way to
the island in a schooner, and when
he gets there he will probably find the
Japanese warship which carries a
message from the State Department
to him warning him to do nothing that
would make trouble between the
| United States and Japan. The matter
will be settled by diplomacy, not by
gunpowder.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
THE PRICE OF COAL ADVANCING

At the close of last week the price
of anthracite coal in New York was
50 per ton. and it was expected that it
would soon go to So The time is rap
| idly approaching when the people of
the cities and towns which depend
upon anthracite coal for fuel will be-
gin to buy their winter supply IN
less there is a speedy ending of the
strike the increased demand will send
the price of anthracite much above so
per ton. The very poor people cannot
pay even that price.
There is a prospect therefore of a
very loud protest in the very near flu
ture against a longer continuance of
the strike. Indeed the protest may be
accompanied by exhibitions of violence
III the large cities.
The strike has entered upon it's
eleventh week and neither side shows
signs of yielding. AS yet there has
been comparatively little violence in
the anthracite region. The strikers
have respected the law with surprising
strictness. If the president of their
OliIOu 10 sincere III what ne says ne IS
confident that the strikers will be vic
tcrious. Doubtless one of the reasons
why there has been so little disturb
ance is the confidence of the miners
in their ultimate success. 1t is certain
that public sympathy is largely on
their side because of their strict OBJ
servance of the law.
The operators are saying nothing.
Apparently they have no intention of
departing from the position they oc-
cupy namely, that there is nothing to
arbitrate and that they will make no
concessions.
The opinion has been expressed that
the increase in the price of coal will
save the operators from much loss. 1t
is doubtful. however, if there was a
very large supply on hand when the
strike began, and it is pretty certain
that as soon as the strike ends there
will be demand for a reduction in the
price. While the operators may not
be as heavy losers as the strikers
there is no doubt that they have suf-
fered severely, and will continue to
until the strike ends.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
Folly of InfideIity.

During one of E. L. Hydes evangeli-
cal trips through this State, says the
Philadelphia Times, he told a Scran-
ton gathering that all infidels were
fools, and that he would undertake to
prove his argument in ten minutes if
any professed infidel wished to give
the opportunity. A man in the aud
fence arose and was politely asked by
hyde to speak, If he wished to speak.
Mr.. Hyde" was the reply, Il have
been listening to you with interest this
last half hour; but l think your most
recent statement was a challenge l
cannot let pass. / am an infidel, but
I'm not a fool. I'm a man of educa-
ton and culture; I've Travelled, and
know more than the average person,
believer or non-belieyer."
do you really believe" asked Hyde
that there is nothing in religion?
Would you go on record as saying so
much?"
Go on record?" queried the man in
surprise. why, I've been writing and
preaching against religion this last
twenty years."
And you say there's nothing in it?"
Absolutely nothing!"
well, l said I'd prove you a fool
within ten minutes" said Hyde, looking
at his watch. Il still have seven minu-
ties left. will leave it to the gathering
if that man is not a fool who devotes
twenty years to preaching against
something which he claims has nothing
in it,"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
BRIGHT BITS.

What Ought to Be.-Visitor: And
what was your offense, my good man?
Convict: Madam, I'm doing time
for reckless automobiling.-Bro
Life.
Wise Precaution.-Bixby: 1 see
young De Coin carries a footman
perched on the rear of his automobile
Milky: Huh! That innocent-looking
footman is coroner in disguise.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Harding: Good news in that let
ter, 1 take it?
Richling: Good news, indeed. 1t is
from my son at college. He merely
writes for money. He hadn't asked
for a remittance for three or four days,
and 1 had begun to think the boy was
dead.-Boston Transcript
The diverse and Reverse.-The
Adorer: It's wonderful, old man, what
love will enable a fellow to see in a
girl that he never saw before!
The Onlooker: No doubt But it's
equally wonderful what it won't let
him see that he'll see later.-Town and
Country.
professional Jealousy. - Farmer
Backporch: Heered tn news, Sal?
Burglars broke inter Josh Medder's
house last night an eat every con-
founded thing in tn pantry.
Mrs. Backporch: Burglars, Ell? I'll
bet it wuz some O. them half-starved
summer boarders from Hank Browns
place.-Judge.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
the soUrH,s COTTON WILLIS.

/ Only those who give attention to
| textile statistics understand fully how
! great the advance of the Southern
states has been in cotton manufactur-
| ing in the last twenty years Indeed,
in 1880 there was comparatively little
/ cotton manufacturing in the South. al
| though even then it was being pre-
| dicted that the day was not distant
when the bulk of the cotton would be
| manufactured near the fields in which
| it was grown.
According to figures compiled by the
Manufacturers Record of Baltimore
there was an increase in the capital
employed in cotton manufacturing be-
tween 1880 and 1900 in the United
States, from S412, 721, 490 to 81, 001, COS, 992
The increase was equal to about 142
per cent. In New England 1t was
from $261, SCI, 147. to S524 $50. 1862, equal
to 100 per cent. In the South it was
from SIS. 379,14O to s146,S40.1 1856 or about
AS per cent.
During the same twenty years the
increase in the value of the textile
products for the United States was
from 1892, 673 ASS to 1888, 1872, $50, equal to
Go per cent. For New England it was
from 1910, 542, 1852 to SAP, S75,975 or about
80 per cent, and for the South from
$25,63S, 246 to STA ,SS7 SOS. or about 34S
per cent.
In 1880 the investments in cotton fac
tories in the South represented only
about per cent. of such investments
in the whole country. In 1900 such in
vestments in the South represented IA
per cent. of those of the whole coun-
try.
The South is advancing in cotton
manufacturing with rapid strides. 1t
is a safe statement that the advance
from 1900 to 1910 will be very much
greater than it was from 1890 to 1900.
We called attention yesterday to the
splendid market that Cuba offers for
Southern cOttons-the kind that com
prises the bulk of the output of the
Southern mills. The United States
sent to Cuba last year, the year end
ing June 80 last, less than half mill
lion dollars worth of cotton goods.
Euba's purchases of that class of goods
in that time, however, amounted to a
good many millions of dollars. Surely
our manufacturers of cotton goods
here in the South are not awake to
the rich market at their very doors
or else Congress is derelict in it's duty
in not opening a way for the goods of
Southern mills to get into the Cuban
market.
And it looks as if our manufacture
ers and merchants were not aware of
the Importance of the Porto Rican
market. In an interview in New York
recently Gov. Hunt of that island said
a vast amount of trade went to Eu-
rope that might just as well as not
come to the United States. 1t seems
that Spain last year sent Porto Rico
$50, 900 worth of rice and $500 600 worth
of potatoes. Surely our merchants
and manufacturers, in searching for
markets, are overlooking those close at
hand.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Atlas Portland, An
drew Hanley Co; P. p P; Freid &
Somers' Cafe, Union Station Restau-
rant.
Business Notices-Chocolate Edairs,
A. NJ. & C. w. West.
Excursion-Grand Steamboat Ex-
cursion to Old Ocean.
The Time to Build Your House is
Now-Chatham Real Estate and I'M
provement CO.
Educational-Tone Institute. Port
Deposit, Md; Atlanta College of Phar-
macy; Emory College, oxford, Ga.
Auction Sales-Store and Dwelling by
r. H. Tatem, Auctioneer.
Whisky-Murray Hill Club Whisky.
July 29-Get II at Rowlinsh's.
Beers-A. B. c. Beers.
Force Food.
Medical-World's Dispensary Prepa-
rations; Castoria; Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure; Peruna: Paine's Celery Com
pound; DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root;
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters; Cuticura;
DR.. David Kennedys Favorite Rem
edy; S. S. s.; TUFTS Pills; Dead Shot
Yermifdge.
Cheap Column Advertisements-He Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
~
Personal.

Captain Freeman, who saved the
steamer Roddam from destruction dur
ing the recent volcanic eruption at ST.
Pierre, was recently presented with a
silver medal by the Liverpool Ship
wreck and Humane society.
-Tattooed on the back of a man
who has just been arrested for theft
in Paris is a portrait of the Russian
Grand Duke Constantine, showing all
his decorations.
Joseph Hodges Choate has never
held public office save that of am
bassador to the court of ST. James,
unless exception he made of the time
he served as president of the New York
constitutional convention in 1894. He is
now in the seventy first year of his life
and has just completed the fiftieth year
of his career in the legal world. He
is a native of Massachusetts, and he
has lived in New York city since he
began the practice of law just half a
century ago.
During the Omaha exposition SEN
ator Chauncey NJ. Depew and S. r.
Galloway, president of the American
Locomotive Company, were strolling
about the Midway, taking in the sights,
when they were invited into a large
hall to see the greatest performance
on EARTH" The hall filled up rapidly
and after a wait of ten or fifteen min
utes the senator said to Mr.. Galloway:
This must be a good show-so many
people are crowding in to see it," At
ter some further waiting, during which
the hall was jammed full the late
Sterling Morton walked down the aisle
and, stopping to shake hands with the
senator and Mr.. Galloway, said:
What in thunder are you fellows do
ing here? There is an old faker out
side calling out, Come in and see the
great and only Chauncey M. Depew!
Only 10 cents to see the great and on
ly Chauncey.'
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Albany IN. " Argus Dem)
says: president Roosevelt has deeid-
ed to appoint negro as receiver of
public moneys at New Orleans. If
the black and tans, rather than the
lilly whites are recognized as the
regular Republican faction in Louisi-
ana, this appointment may initiate
somewhat against Mr.. Hanna'S claims
to the delegation
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
Qnd) says: There can now be no
doubt that Mr.. Cleveland's omission of
all reference to the question of impe-
r:alism in his Tilden Club speech was
Intentional. Mr.. Shepard's acceptance
of Mr.. Cleveland's view that the tariff
is again paramount shows that the ex-
President chose his ground with de-
liberation. Yet no man or party can
make an issue of oVershadowing in
terest in the popular mind unless the
popular mind gives itself up to the is
sue. As to what issue just now most
interests the ma jority of the people no
enc can do more than form an opin-
ion, and that opinion is pretty sure to
be affected by it's owners Desires
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.)
says: THE true idea of Democracy Is
that every citizen should have the
right and opportunity to better his con-
dition if he can, and having done so
by acquiring wealth, he is entitled TO
its enjoyment and to protection in his
enjoyment. That many Democrats
have become wealthy is a fact. and
that there is nothing in such wealth
that cuts them off from the party is
equally fact. When. then, any man in
his public harangues and teachings
tries to array the masses OF the peo-
pie against the wealthy as a class and
thereby TO create a deep-seated and
violent class jealousy and hostility. he
becomes demagogue. whose doctrines
are dangerous 10 the welfare OF the
Republic. That Mr.. Bryan Is strongly
unctured with socialism has been long
apparent. bat his doctrines as express
ed in his recent speech verge at least
upon imDrudenee."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
ANOTHER POsTpONEMENTs

There is beginning to creep into the
dispatches from London a shade of
doubt about the coronation taking
place on Aug. .. 1t is true that these
limitations that the King is not mend
ing as fast as it was expected he
would may be wholly sensational: still.
the fact cannot be ignored that there
does not seem to be any activity in
the making of preparations for the
event. Even the Prime Minister, Mr..
Balfour, when asked in the House of
Commons the other day whether or not
Aug. would be a bank holiday, gave
an evasive reply. The inference from
what he said was that there was
grave doubt about the King being
able by that date to endure the ia
ugue of the coronation ceremony. Only
a day or two ago it was stated that
if the coronation took place on the
day fixed for it the King would have
to make his appearance in an invalid
chair.
1t seems that no one except his
nurses and physicians are permitted
to see him. Even when he is on deck
he is hidden behind a screen. That
looks as If his appearance were such
as to awaken grave approximations as
the probability of his final recovery.
The reports of the doctors, however
are extremely favorable, and these
speculations and surmises in the spe-
cial dispatches may have little, if any.
foundation.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
A "Hot-Box" Set or PeIee.

The Mont Pelee disaster was taken
as a text by one of the speakers at a
recent nearby camp-meeting of negro
Zionists, says the Philadelphia Times
He explained that the eruption was a
rebuke to tie greed of mankind along
the following lines
De earf my fr'en's, resolves on ak
els, as we all know. Som fin suah am
needed to keep 'em axels creased. so
de good Lawd, in His wisdom an fo'-
sight, puts lots up petroleum in de
bowels ub de earf for dat purpose De
Stan ard Oil Comply comes along an
'strax dat PETROLEUM by borin' holes
in de earf. De earf sticks on its AK
els an wont go round no more. Dere
is hot box, jus as tho de earf wuz
a big railroad train-an' then, my
fr'en's, dere am trubble."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29

Pension Commissioner Ware is re-
ported to have expressed himself as
plicatons for pensions filed by volun-
teers Of the recent war with Spain
The Eighth Ohio and the Ninth Massa-
chusetts volunteer regiments have
each on file 705 applications II is said
that company which served in
Northern volunteer regiment had as its
captain a pension attorney and that
al the end Of the war practically every
member OF the company nled an APP
piieation for q pension
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
He Was welcome.

The boy in the boarding house was
at breakfast, and was trying his best
to eat his egg quickly, so he could
take the only one remaining in the
dish before another boarder, who he
thought had designs upon it, could
appropriate it, says the New York
sun He was small boy. much given
to using large words at random The
egg still reposed in the dish when he
was ready TO eat II, so. looking across
the table, he remarked apprehensively.
rs that egg occupied? II 1t isn't l
should like to have it,"
The other boarder smilingly replied,
while passing the dish
hope not. II II is you are welcome
10 g."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
COST OF THE BoER WAR.

Since leaving the ministry Sir
Michael Hicks Beach feels freer to
talk about the cost of the South Afri-
can and Chinese wars. At a farewell
dinner given at the mansion house by
the Mayor of London on last Friday
night, he said that Great Britain spent
in the foregoing wars the enormous
sum of $1,140, 900, 900. OF course by far
the greater part of the amount was
spent in the South African war. 1t
seems that the people paid about
100000 of it during the progress of
the wars.
1t will take Great Britain a long
time to put her finances on as favor
able a basis as they were before the
wars began. 1t will take a half
century-probably a century-to pay
off the debt contracted in the South
African war. 1t is probable that the
Rand gold mines and the diamond
mines will be taxed heavily, but the
amount received from these sources
will not much more than pay the in
terest on the debt that was contracted.
And as yet the inside history of the
South African war has not been writ
ten. When the whole truth is known it
will probably appear that the origin
of the war was the Rand gold mines.
The Beers wanted them for them
selves and the British owners objected
to the enormous taxes which the Beers
levied upon them in one way and an
other.
The output of these gold mines is ex-
pected to be enormous The report
is that fully 100000 men will be en-
ployed in them. If the yield should be
as great as estimated the gold supply
of the world may become so great as
to be a source of a great deal Of
trouble
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29

The New York Evening Post quotes
official data showing that So per cent.
OF the marriages in this country ARE
clearly due to the accidental circun-
stances of mere propinquity." And yet
We have been told that marriages are
made in heaven! The Post complains
that our marriage system is hopelessIy
unsclentiiic, which is no doubt true;
but what does the little blind god care
about dry science?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29

The records of the war with Spain
ana the war in the Philippines
viii, in all probability, be pub
hshed next year. At it's COM
ing session Congress is to be asked
to authorize the publication OF these
records, which are very voluminous.
An innovation will be the Illustration
OF the books with half-tone engrav-
fngs from photographs taken during
the wars
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29

The British target ship Belle Isle
was bombarded with heavy guns the
other day. Her superstructure was
demolished, but upon an examination
it was found that her coming tower
was intact. report says; "A nine
inch shell struck the tower obliqueIy.
causing the armor to scale, but the
interior remained uninjureo. A big
rat which had been imprisoned in the
tower in order to ascertain whether
life could be supported amid the
fumes and conclusion of exploding
shells was found to be unhurt and
lively" Thus is Fighting Bob's" use
of the coming tower indicated.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29

Senator Cockrell of Missouri ex-
presses the opinion that there has been
altogether too much talking by some
of the leading Democrats. 1T has
been my experience" he says, that
when a man is not certain as to what
is the best thing to be done, silence
is the wisest course" He believes,
however, that public sentiment will
crystalize before the campaign of 1904,
and that there will be harmonious ac-
ton on the part of the Democrats.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
stump speaking would.

When Prince Para
mindr-Maha-C hulal onIkorn- Pra-Chom-
Kiao. of Siam. arrives in Newport.
which he is scheduled to do shortly,
those who wish to address him will
time-honored American expedient of,
Say, you!"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29

A new thing in the trust line has
made its appearance in New York
state. 1t is a trust of newspapers.
P. F. Collier. the publisher, is reputed
to be at the head of K. Forty news
paper plants in towns along the Hud-
son and in the central part of the
state have been secured. and it is the
purpose to have the trust in working
order by October. The capital of the
combination is placed at 81 ,000 900.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29

A national labor party, as suggested
in Milwaukee, is impractical and un-
necessary. The Democratic party Of
fers means to all necessary reforms
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29

Memories of the futile effort to pop
ularize the free silver question by a
drama founded on the Crime of 49,
are called up by the introduction of
the drama in the Ohio campaign. The
Prohibitionists of that state have put
on the road Ten Nights in Bar
room" company, which will play under
canvass in the principal towns. The
theory is that the play will make
more converts to prohibition than
stump speaking would.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29

Mr.. Bryan doesn't like the Fowler
banking and currency bill. He says
that under its provisions it would be
possible for the banks to form a gi-
gantic trust. and, furthermore, that lit
means practically the loaning OF
money a second time"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29

During the last fifty years 1900. 900
Irish people emigrated. Sc per cent. OF
them coming to the United States.
Recent data show that the Irish are
taxed three times as much for police
as the English ana Scotch who pro-
vide proportionately ave times as
many criminals.