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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09

before in similar period OF time. The
shingle industry Is in a particularly thriv-
ing condition.
"No I'm not down here on political
matters" concluded Senator Wilson: 'I'm
out of political and back in the free.and.
easy life of private citizenship. Persona
business brings me here. will remain a
day or two, after which viii go to New
York, returning after Congress resumes
business"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09

In six months British concentration
camps killed more women and children
han the British armies did Boer soldiers
In two years. Britain's war in South
Africa shows how injustice leads to in
humanity.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09

1t is to be hoped that the Filipinos will
be duly grateful for their Christmas pres
ent-the Philippine tariff measure. To
enjoy it fully they must carefully refrain
from reading an account of England's
treatment OF the American colonies.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09
A Cure for LumbaSO.

w. c. Williamson, of Amherst, Va
says: "For more than year suffered
from lumbago. finally tried Chamber
lan's Pain Balm and it gave me entire
relief, which all other remedies had
failed to do" Sold by Evans Drug Co.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
BRIGHT BITS.

-Cipe-"Goggle's automobile beats
lightning" Haskins-'In speed?" Cipe
Yes; and also in regard to the num-
Der of victims. Brooklyn Life.
JOHNNY wish my folks would
agree upon one thing. and not keep me
all the time in a worry" Tommy
What have they been doing now %
Johnny-"Mother won't let me stand
on my head, and dad is all the time
fussing because I wear my shoes out
so fast. "--Boston Transcript.
-"Ah!" said the caller, 1T notice
that you smoke good cigars" Yes,
occasionally" replied Graphter. Then
you will be interested in what 1 have
to show you. l am selling a line of
Havana Gig Pardon me. Your
first observation was correct. 1 do
smoke good cigars, but I don't buy
them. "-Philadelphia Press.
Yes" said the pilgrim in the eld-
Derby overcoat with the bullying peck
cts, him an me is in partnership
but we don't do business together"
"How's that" why, he goes around
sellin' a stove blackin' that leaves a
stain on the fingers. go around next
day to the same houses with the only
soap that'll take 1t off."-Chicago Trib-
uuQ.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Montgomery Advertiser (Dem)
says; I'VE have the satisfaction of
knowing that there's to be other cleo
tons after this. The Democrats of
this great country have had too many
set-backs to feel discouraged over this
ONE
The Richmond Dispatch Dem.)
says: "Dalzen of Pennsylvania is in
the field for the speakership, with
Quay at his back. So Cannon, the big
gun of Illinois, will have other oppo-
sition than that of Babcock, repre-
senting the Northwestern Republican
tariff revisionists. Payne of New
York will also be made a candidate,
but only, it is understood, with a view
to his reappointment as chairman Of
the Ways and Means Committee"
The Birmingham Age-Herald CDem.)
says: This is the only country in
the world that is able to float a per
cent. bond and IL is nearly the only
country that has no permanent debt
In other countries public debts are not
redeemable at a fixed date, and as a.
matter of fact they are not, as a rule
redeemed at all. They are carried as
a permanent incubus. All of our in
terestIbeartng debt is met at matur-
llyt anu l0eTe Is Il uAeQ intention TO
cancel 1t as soon as it can conveniently
be done. This is one reason why we
are able to float 2 per cent. bonds"
The Philadelphia Record Dem)
says: Certified checks are used to so
large an extent as the equivalent of
cash in stock exchange transactions
that the decision of a federal court
In Michigan impugning the sanctity Of
that kind OF commercial paper will be
likely to cause not a little consterna-
ton in the business circles where the
same has hitherto passed as currency.
A bank in which a certified check had
been deposited sued the depositor when
the paper was returned unpaid: and
the court directed a verdict for the
plaintiff. holding that generalization
is fraudulent and that even an innocent
holder cannot be protected, since fraud
vitlates all contracts. II the decision
should be affirmed by the Federal Su-
preme Court the value OF certified
checks as currency would be seriously
impaired. OF course, a bank which
oyeroertifes would not be permitted 20
plead its own fraud in defense. and.
n solvent. would be obliged 10 honor
the draft"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
The Souls Flight

Marion c. Smith in Youths Com
Steaming over wild seas, rafting over
rails,
We have brought, to conuqer space.
power that never fails;
We have trapped the lightning, har-
messed it to go
Down the world and up again, hurting
to and fro:
This has been our messenger; this shall
be our steed:
We have set the rein and curb on its
fiery speed;
UP the world and down again, rowing
at our WILL
Yet however swift we go, we are
'prisoned still!
Moving mid the splendor of all earth
ly things,
We are sick for nights of air, we are
mad for wings!
Shall the lightning bear us yet to the
very door
Where the storm and sullen cloud hold
its force in store?
Land and sea are small to us: wider
risk we'd brave;
Up the winds and down again-that is
what we Gravel
let the edTlH would cld1m again all
our vaunted powers;
What were lightning wings to us,
since they art not ours?
Though we've stolen magic fires.
though we've set their course.
Yet there's something stirring us-a
wilder deeper force;
All the powers that we have known.
wind and wire and steam,
Fail to move the folded wings that
iutter in our dream.
Till the hour when they are spread.
We shall sign and lack;
Though we conquer space and time.
earth will draw us back;
Though we run. and though we fly.
though at last we fare
Round the world and over II, through
the circling air.
We have come from spaces vast. where
the day is born.
Where the mighty spheres are forged
in the fires of morn;
Thither shall We fee away. as a Dart
ing flames.
Back 10 God. and home again-home
20 whence we came.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
THREE YEARS At ANNAPOLIS.


The Secretary of the Navy has is
sued an order reducing the term of
study for naval cadets at Annapolis
from four years TO three. This has
been found necessary in order to pro-
vide the navy with officers to command
the ships. As a matter of fact, If all
the ships of the navy were at once
ordered into commission. the order
could hardly be made effective, for the
reason that there are not officers
enough to supply them. Several ves-
sells are out of commission, nominally
for purposes of repairs but actually.
because of the shortage Of officers.
During the forthcoming evolutions of
the great feet under Admiral Dewey
in West Indian waters, many of the
ships will be under-officered.
1t may be argued that officers could
be taken from the merchant marine to
make up the deficiency. That might
work satisfactorily If conditions in the
navy were the same as they were half
a century ago, when the ships went
by sail and the batteries were made
up of old-fashioned muzzle leaders.
But the modern war vessel, represent
ing anywhere from half a million to
seven million dollars, is a gigantic and
complex machine, the management of
which demands a high order of techni-
cal knowledge and experiences. In addi-
ton to being a navigator, a sailor and
brave man, the modern naval officer
must be educated along such special
lines as electricity, engineering, high
explosives ballistic tests, etc. He
must be something OF a scientist as
we'll as sailor; and there are not a
great many persons possessing all of
these qualifications in the merchant
marine service. Furthermore, the
merchant marine itself has use for all
of the high-class and exceptionally eff
ficient men that it can get hold of.
The reduction of the time of the An
napolis course by rs per cent. cannot
fail to be reflected in the qualifca-
tons of the cadets, since it is unreas-
enable to suppose that a man can
learn as much in three years as in
four, especially when the four years
have been so crowded with hard study
that there is little room for condensa-
ton. The graduates under the new
order will not be so we'll trained as
those under the old; but the navy must
have officers, or there will be no use
to go on building ships. Congress has
been aware of the condition of things
for some time, but in its wisdom Con-
gress has declined to make provisions
for an increased supply of officers
while passing large appropriations for
more vessels
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
She Knew Josh.

Now, madam" said the counsel for
the defendant, according to Tit Bits, to
a little, wiry. black-eyed, fidgety wo-
man, who had been summoned in a
case, you will please give your evil
dence in as few words as possible. You
know the defendant"
Know who?"
THE defendant-Mr. Joshua Bagg?"
Josh Bagg? 1 do know him, and /
knowed his father before him, and /
don't know nothin' to the credit of
either of EN-, and 1 don't think
I'VE don't want to know what you
think, madam. Please say yes or mo-
to my questions"
What questions?"
DO you know Mr.. Joshua Bagg?''
Don't know him, though. You ask
Josh Bagg if he knows me. Ask him
if he knows anything about trying to
cheat pore wilder like me out of $25.
ASK
Madam. -
ASK him whose orchard he robbed
last and why he did it in the night
ASK his wife, Betsy Bagg, if she knows
anything about slippin' into a neigh
bor's field and milkin' three cows on
the sly. Ask
Look here. madam"
ASK Josh Bagg about that uncle OF
his that died in prison. Ask him about
lettin' his pore old mother die in the
workhouse. Ask Betsy about putting a
big brick into a lot of butter she sold
last spring"
Madam. 1 tell You--''
See if Josh Bagg knows anything
about feeding ten head of cattle on all
the salt they could eat, and then let
ting them swill down all the water
they could hold, just fore he driv
them into town and sold 'em. See what
he's got to say to that!'
That has nothing to do with the
case. l want you to"
Then there was old Azrael Bagg
own uncle to Josh, got kicked out OF
his native town, and Betsy Bagg's owr
brother got ketched in a neighbor's
henhouse at midnight. Ask Josh"
Madam, what do you know about
this case?"
II don't know a Twin thing bout it
but I'm sure Josh Bagg is guilty
Whatever it is. The fact is, I've owee
them Baggses a grudge for the last
fifteen years, and l got myself called
up on purpose to get even with 'em
and / feel I've done it,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
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ager.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
The Record Strike.

Here is a table of a strike which is
still on. The narrator is a resident of
Detroit, says the New York Post.
Forty years ago, when I was a boy
and living at Concord, N. H." he said
in telling the story to a group of
friends the other day, "a man built
a factory for the manufacture of sleds
and wheelbarrows. 1t was a water
power concern, and the cost was about
$4,000 When the forty employees had
turned out about hundred wheel
barrows a difference of opinion arose
between them and the proprietor.
don't exactly remember what ii was,
but il was stated over and over again
in after years that it would have
made q difference of less than a dol
lar a week to either side. The owner
wouldn't give in, and the men stood
firm, small as the matter was, and a
strike took place-perhaps the first in
New Hampshire. When the men
walked out the owner said to them:
Very well; you can go. Remem-
Der, however, that I'll see this factory
rot to the ground before I'll give in
They answered that they would
starve before they would yield, and
so the factory was locked up, and
time went on. A score of attempts
were made to arbitrate, but without
avail. The owner grew old and gray,
and the hands died or disappeared. and
five years ago. by personal investiga-
ton / found that only the owner and
one of the strikers were left alive in
Concord. knowing them both, l had
a talk with them about the strike, but
both were still firm. l was in Con-
cord again a month ago. The fac
tory was still closed and ready to
tumble down, and the last of the
strikers was dead. The owner was
hobbling about the streets of the town
on crutches, with only few months
life left, when 1 said to him:
We'll, Uncle Billy, / learn that
Job Sabins is dead. AS he was the
last of the strikers you'll open the
factory again, won't your
No, 1 WON'T he bluntly replied
Being as I've been a BANKED fool for
forty years, I'm going to keep it up
the rest of my days.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
personal.

Congressman Lacey OF Iowa says
that during the last session of Con-
gress a down East member suggested
to him that some of the tariff sched-
ules should be reduced. And where
would you begin?" asked Lacey The
Yankee thought 1t would be a good
idea to put hides on the free list. 1t
struck the Iowa man that his constit-
uents would not favor that particular
cut, so he said: "How would your
people like free boots and shoes?" The
Yankee hastily replied: "Oh, that's
quite different thing. Boots and
shoes haven't enough protection now"
The Iowa man said "Mphm" and walk
ed away.
London papers have reached the
stage of printing anecdotes about
Charles T. Yerkes. Here is one re-
lated by the Express: &C T. Yerkes,
the triumphant electric tube king, has
a reputation for doing things well.
Perhaps the explanation lies in a rule
which he always observes This is
never to take up more than one thing
at time. He was asked the other
day whether he was going to engage
In any new schemes. IF a man came
to me with guarantee that he could
make golden sovereigns out of scrap
iron," he said, Il would not join him
or back him. One thing at a time has
been my invariable rule"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
CONTRASTING REPORTS.

The reports of Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, commanding the army and Mai.
Gen. Henry c. Corbin. adjutant gem
eraI of the army. have been made pub
lie within the past few days. The
two reports form a notable contrast
That Of Gen. Miles is brief and
insipid, as colorless as a child's first
reader, while that of Gen. Corbin is
exhaustive and virile, going into de-
tails and making recommendations
with the assurance of one who is GER
tain OF his ground.
Heretofore Gen. Miles has been noted
as vigorous writer on military sub
iects. He has had opinions and the
courage to express them. Within the
past two or three years he has more
than once been in hot water with the
department on account of the freedom
of his expressions and criticisms. He
has been particularly opposed to that
plan Of reorganiza ton of the army
proposed by Secretary Root provid-
ing for a general staff And yet in
his latest annual report-the last
Gen. Miles will make as general COM
manding the army-there is not a word
about the general staff proposition.
Nor does his report deal with any of
the other questions in controversy,
such as the coast defense equipments,
in which he has previously been so
warm a partisan. Has Miles been
blue penciled" by the authorities of
the department? There are those who
think his report has been edited"
quite extensively, and cut down until
1t is only a skeleton of its original
self. The report had been in the
hands of the department more than
a month before it was made public.
and Gen. Miles had arrived in Manila
before the publication was authorized.
1t was anticipated that Miles would
wish to make his final report one of
the best and fullest he had ever writ
ten. When, therefore, a scant three
pages Of commonplaces were given cut
as the annual report of the general
commanding, there was something like
CONSERVATION among his friends, who
nave bSeH Saying 10 edCn Otner since
that Miles has been suppressed by the
Secretary of War in order to permit
Corbin to take the leading position
in the matter of military recommenda-
tons.
Whether there is any truth in this
or not. the fact remains that Gen.
Corbin's report has about it the air
of authorization. while that of Gen.
Miles Is hardly more than perfume
tory. Corbin recommends with posi-
tiveness; Miles merely comedies with
certain department policies and ex-
presses no important opinions. Was
Miles sent to the Philippines oppor-
tunelY so that he would be out of the
way when the time for publishing the
annual reports came around7 There
are those in Washington who are in
clined to that belief; and they say
that there will be something doing"
when Gen. Miles gets back from the
Far East. He will be retired for age
before many months, and it is believed
that before he leaves the army, or very
shortly thereafter, he will have some
thing to say about War Department
management that will make mighty
interesting reading
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
lNDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Ship Notice, j. F.
Minis & Co., Agents. Ship Notice, Will
hanson & Rauers. Agents; Union Sta
ton, Fried & Sommers; Notice TO City
Court Jurors.
Savannah Theater-To- might, To-
morrow Matinee and Night. Grace Cam
eIon in "a Normandy Wedding"
A Barrel of Money-Lindsay & Nor
gam.
Washing Powder-Pearline.
Shoes. K. Orr Shoe Company.
Silver Polish-Gorham's
."Presto!"
Proposals-For Remodelling Charles
ton Commercial Club Building.
Uneeda Biscuit-National Biscuit
Company.
Beer-Pabst Beer.
Medical-Sloan's Eminent; DR.. Hath
away Company; Castoria.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted Employment Wanted; For
Sale; For Rent; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
DON'T REsIjRRECT 1T.

1t is announced from New Orleans
that the Louisiana State Lottery Com
pany, driven out of business eight
years ago by the votes of the people,
is to be re-incorporated,t that its promo
tiers are confident the Legislature will
legalize it's existence and the people
reverse their verdict and that the same
old system will be pursued that in the
past made New Orleans so peculiarly
offensive in the nostrils of the nation.
What foundation there is for this
adamantine assurance, alleged to have
been expressed by the present promo
ters. 1t would perhaps be difficult to
say but the hope may be permitted,
deferentially, that the foundation is
built on sand. 1t would be painful to
think that the people of Louisiana
would welcome or permit the return
which they have escaped. 1t viii be
hard to believe they will legalize the
existence of an institution that viii
prey openly, shamelessly and remorse-
lessly upon the weak-ninded or over
confident of every state in the Union.
When it is considered how large is the
voting strength OF the two elements of
the population referred to the difficulty
of belief, weakened by a lingering and
poignant apprehension, will find ex-
preston In a wall of anticipatory an
guish.
Here in Savannah second consid-
Grafton gives us pause. We have num-
erous local institutions devoted to
the pursuit of divorcing the unwary
citizen from the wary dollar and if
the existence of these is to be permit
ted at all, let us, for heavens sake
patroniZe and protect home industry
1t is more agreeable to be separated
from our wealth by a genial and cour-
teous acquaintance than by soulless
corporation hundreds of miles away.
Seriously, we hope the New Orleans
report has no foundation of fact. II
would be reflection upon the civiIiza-
ton of Louisiana If the state lottery
were permitted to be re-establisheo
and a very real and constant menace
to the happiness and comfort of many
humble homes throughout the land. Its
death was mourned only by those who
had profited by its operations, but it,
resurrection, should that occur, woulc
occasion a grief at once more far.
reaching and profound.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
He Had Enough.

York, recently, ex-senator David B.
Hill was asked if he thought Bryan
would run again. According to the
New York Times, he replied:
That reminds me of a freight
wreck down near Washington. Some
box-cars were piled up by a collision,
and as the wrecking crew got to work
a tattered and terrified man crawled
out, examined his limbs to see if any
bones were broken, and began TO limp
down the track.
81" Hold on, WILLIE called one of the
crew. You may as well ride to Wash
ington. Wen be fixed UP soon
" That is the second time I've been
wrecked replied the hobo. Don't you
think 1 know when I've had enough?
I'm no Bryan "
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10

There was well authenticated rumor
passed around in New York a day or
two ago. to the effect that Richard
Croker would return to that city next
spring. Those OF Mr.. Cookers friends
who gave the report currency were
careful to say that the former boss OF
TAmmany was not coming back to enter
politics but only to attend the Sara
togs race meeting. Still nobody would
be greatly surprised to see him back at
the head of the great political machine
in Fourteenth street.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10

Ice is free under the schedules of
the Dingley tariff, but mineral waters
are dutiable. The wise men who
framed the law possibly never once
imagined that mineral waters might
be frozen into solid blocks, imported
free as ice, and then be melted, bot
tied and sold as mineral waters. But
some shrewd dealers in New York
knew that process was possible, and
for long time they have been i'm
porting ice and selling mineral water
from it. The customs officials at New
York are now trying to get a ruling
that will stop the practice.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10

1t is unfortunate that Speaker Hen
derson did not resign the speakershIp
at the time he declined to stand for
reelection. Had he done so, 1t would
have been necessary for the Republi-
cans to select a successor to him i'm
mediately upon the reassembling of
Congress next month. But, since the
Speaker has decided to hold on to the
office during the remainder of his term,
which expires next March. the whole
of the short session will be taken up
with log-rolling and wire-pulling on
the part of speakership candidates ana
their friends-i 49,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10

The governorship of Iowa is probably
not something equally as good" as the
speakership of the National House of
Representatives, but it is a long sight
better than nothing to a man who has
been in politics the greater part of his
life. Gen. David b. Henderson. it has
been definitely announced, will be a
candidate for the governorship of his
state next spring. Gov. Cummings.
against whom Gen. Henderson will
make his fight in the Republican par
ty, is the leader of the faction that
wrote "the Iowa idea" into the recent
state platform and which forced Gen.
Henderson's declination of a renomina-
ton for Congress.