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The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-03-31

SAN FRANCISCO, Call March 2s-Sugar 81
rifugals, 1925 cents.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-03-31

SALONICA, March 2s.-A battle between the
and Turkish troops in Macedonia resulted in loss
killed among the insurgent forces
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03
A story of Phil May.

An amusing story is told of Phil May
and an English conjurer at the fair
at Stratford-o Avon, says the New
York Tribune. Phil was in the crowd
which had gathered to watch a very
clever gentleman who was wrapping
up soVereigns and half crowns in pieces
of paper and selling them for two shill-
ings. The sharp had a beautiful face
such a face as Phil May loved to
draw. SO he sketched him furtively.
But the gentleman saw him, and made
a speech forthwith.
IF that there celebrited portrit paint
er with the tight breaches on will and
up the picter, the equally celebrited
beneefactor to 'oomanity wot is giVin'
away guilds for coppers will reward i'm
accordingly" he shouted
Phil, with a twinkle in his eye, hand
delighted with the sketch and pinned it
to the tailboard of his cart. With an
other preliminary speech he threw
three sovereigns, three half sovereigns
and several half crowns into piece of
paper screwed it up and handed it to
the artist You'll be president of the
bloomin' Ryal Academy some dwye
young man, said he. Here, catch!"
A bargains a bargain" said Phil
walking off with the packet of gold and
silver.
He confessed afterward, when he
opened the packet and found two PEN
MES and halfpenny in it, that it was
the most entertaining commission he
had ever been paid for.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03

To commemorate the heroic but
hopeless charges of the French cav
airy at the battle of Sedan monu-
ment is to be erected on the spot where
the division of Gen. Marguerite melted
away under the fire of the German in
fantry and artillery. says the New
York Sun. NJ. Emile Guillaume, the
sculptor, has undertaken the work, and
the monument will be erected by pub
lie subscription. At the request of Gen.
de Gallifet Gen. Faverot, who was in
the last charge, wrote his recollec-
tons of it, One would imagine that
little or nothing new could be told to
the world about the battle of Sedan
but the general gives some details
which are noteworthy. Among them
there is one episode which escaped the
pencils of the painters of battle pic
lures When the division of Gen. Mar
guerite, which rushed upon the Prus-
sian columns was shattered and brok-
en- by the terrible fire of the needle
gun and of the artillery fragment
of it, under Gen. de Gallifet, passed
in front of the Prussian reserves and
came close to the Eighty-first Nassau
battalion. The German officer com
handing that battalion in admiration
Of the brave fellows" gave the order
to cease firing. The French officers
saluted and the Germans returned the
salute and cheered.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03
HANNA AND HIS SLAVE PENSION

BILL.
Why did Senator Hanna introduce
into the Senate the bill which pro-
vides a pension for negroes who
were slaves? He has never given
satisfactory explanation OF that
question, although, if we are not mis-
taken, it has been asked him num-
Der of times. He has said that he
wasn't the author of it, but he hasn't
said who is it's author He must have
suspected, however, when he consented
to introduce it that it would be used
to defraud credulous negroes. He can
hardly say that he did not take into
consideration the fact that such use
might be made of it. He is a very
shrewd man and knows that sharpers
are on the lookout all the time for
means to defraud the unwary.
What then was his purpose in intro
ducing it? Did he think he would
please the negroes of Ohio by doing
so? There is a big negro vote in that
state, and there are elections there
when the two great parties are pretty
evenly balanced. In such elections
the Republicans want every vote they
can get.
Did Senator Hanna introduce the
bill, knowing that his name in connec-
ton with it would give it wide pub
licity and make the ex-slaves believe
the Republican party was going to
make a genuine effort to pension them,
simply to please those who wanted it
introduced. or did he have in view the
benefit that might accrue to him and
to his party if he should introduce it?
These are questions that he ought to
answer. He knows very well that his
groes who had been slaves, and he
must have known that such a bill WAS
likely to be used to defraud negroes.
We published yesterday an account
Of the arrest and preliminary trial at
Thomasville, in this state, of a negro
who is alleged to have been collecting
money from negroes on the strength of
the Hanna slave pension bill. There is
no way, of course, of finding out how
much he has collected nor how many
other men are using that bill to de-
fraud negroes. 1t is probable that if
the truth were known it would appear
that many thousands of aged and pow
erty stricken negroes in all parts of
the country have given small sums
thinking they would soon receive pen
sions.
1t seems that the Thomasville ne
Senator Hanna to know if any one
was authorized to collect money ton ac-
count of the bill. OF course they re-
ceived a negative answer. But it is
only occasionally that negroes appeal
ed to for money as the Townsville
negroes were seek information as to
the truth of the representations made
to them in connection with the bill.
The most of them are too ignorant to
take a step of that kind. The conse-
quence is that the negroes are being
robbed with comparative impunity.
1t seems to us that Senator Hanna,
having been the means through which
the negroes are being robbed, should
take measures for putting a stop to
the robbery The newspapers have
done much to warn the negroes, but
their warning either hasn't been heed
ed or else it has reached but compar-
atively few of those likely to be the
victims of those who use the slave
pension bill for purposes of swindlinG
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Norfolk (Va.) Landmark (Dem.)
says: president Roosevelt didn't need
the advice of Secretary Hay when Ad-
miral Cotton's squadron was ordered to
Beirut on the supposition that the
American vice consul had been killed;
but the President needs the advice of
the State Department now, and is
doubtless seeking it in large doses"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: "A Catholic clergyman read
from the pulpit last Sunday what pur-
ports to be the oath of the Typogra phi
ical Union, according to which the per-
son who takes it swears that his fidel-
ity to the union shall in no sense he
interfered with by any allegiance that
l may now or hereafter owe to any
other organization, social, political or
religious. The clergyman seems to be
justified in saying that this puts the I'M
ion before both church and state, and
it raises a curious inquiry about the
obligations felt by the employees of the
Government Printing Office who took
the oath of allegiance to the United
States the other day. Which is the
binding oath, the earlier one to the I'M
ion or the later one to their country"
The New York Journal of Commerce
Qnd.) says: I'm yachting we ask no
odds, but in International shipping We
cannot maintain a respectable footing
either with or without protection. We
can build the fastest yachts for amuse-
ment. or splendid warships for defense;
yet we cannot run the 20,000-tonners
which carry the worlds commerce and
promote the worlds peace and progress
unless we hide them under an alien
flag. Why are such craft beyond us?
Why are we always beaten when trying
TO run ships under the same conditions
as our rivals? Why is ii when We drop
play and turn TO business, or drop
yachting and turn to the ocean liner.
or even the useful tramp. we take the
rear position and resort 10 such weak,
ineffective supports as patriotism pros
lection and subsidies instead of study
ing and following If necessary the
methods OF those who are now beating
us? Yachting victories are all very
well but We want something more
substantial"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03
NEW FEVER IN CUBA.

1t has been the boast of the Cuoans
during the past year or two, and of
American army officers who began the
work of cleaning up the island and put
ting it into sanitary condition, that yell
low fever has been conquered in Cuba.
For hundreds of years both Santiago
and Havana had been hot-beds of the
disease, until the American occupation;
then followed a general and thorough
house-cleaning and the adoption of hy-
gienic measures, and the yellow fever
gradually disappeared until no single
case was reported for twelve months
at a time. Indeed. if we are not mis-
taken and the official reports are strict
ly accurate. there has been no case of
the fever in Havana for more than two
years,
But, if yellow jack has been mas
tered, it seems that there has come in
the place of it a new, mysterious and
more deadly fever, which is now caUs-
ing the island, and of course the medi-
cal profession in this country. no little
concern. The disease seems to have
recent past. but it has spread to other
parts of the island and fears are en-
tertained that it will reach the cities.
No name has yet been given to the
malady. Physicians who have come
into contact with it declare it to be
more terrifying in its aspects than the
dreaded bubonic plague. 1t shows, they
say, the worst symptoms of the yell
low fever, black fever and spotted fever
and its termination is almost always
fatal; unless it is taken in hand imme-
diately upon its appearance in a per-
son it is certainly fatal. 1t is a quick
disease, and death often occurs within
a few hours. After death the body cf
the victim turns a deep yellow, a much
more pronounced color than in cases
of yellow fever. The agonies suffered
by those stricken with the fever IS de-
scrbed as being extremely eXcruciat-
ing. The pulse goes up to 100, the res
piration reaches SIS and the temperature
101 or 10S. In the final stages blood
gushes from the nostrils, and the high
fever consumes the tissues of the body.
The fever is said to be contagious and
to spread with considerable rapidly
Many remedies have been tried, but
liberal and frequent doses of quinine
seem to have more effect than any
thing else so far employed. Several
American medical colleges have re-
ceived reports on the new disease, to-
gether with appeals to them for assist
ance in studying it. DR.. Hef, of The
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
is Of the opinion that the new fever, if
reports concerning it are correct is
likely to become menace to the United
States.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03
THE sOUTH's COTTON MILLS.

Southern cotton mills consumed last
year nearly 4OO, 900 bales of cotton more
than they did three years ago; and this,
as Col Hester shows, in face of trade
conditions supposed to have been
brought about by the abnormal differ
ence between values of raw material
and the manufactured article" This
means that the cotton manufacturing
industry in the South is making sure
progress, and that cotton goods can be
manufactured in the South profitabIy
when the mills of New England and
Great Britain are compelled to close
down ON account of the high price of
raw material. During the recent past
there has been a cessation in mill
building activity in this part of the
country. At one time, several years
ago, there was something of a boom"
in the construction of cotton mills in
the South. That has now given place
TO more conservative progressiveness
in that line that augurs well for the in
dustry and the section.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03
MIR. BROWNS EXPLANATION.

Mr.. w. P. Brown. the great bull
leader of the cotton market during
the season that closed Aug. 81, says
that it is mistake to say that his
operations caused cotton mills to close
and employees to be thrown out of work.
What he did. he says, was to buy cot
ton from mills that had a surplus and
sell it to mills that had to have cot
ton 1t may be that some mills had
to close, but they would have had to
close, he says, if there had been no
corner in cotton, because there was
a cotton famine" There was not
cotton enough to keep all the mills
in. the world going. He paid the price
the mills that had surplus asked and
got the cotton.
From this simple statement it might
be inferred that the only thing he did
was to make a better distribution of
cotton than already eXisted-that is,
that he took the cotton from mills that
had a surplus and turned it over to
those which had none. He did some
thing more than that, however. He
was shrewd enough to see that there
was a cotton famine and nervy enough
to use his knowledge to the utmost
limit. He bought cotton and held it
until he got his price. That is, he
bought all of the cotton that was Of
fered and therefore was in a position
to fix the price.
There is no doubt that he was very
successful in his operations He had
the confidence of the financial insti-
tutions that were supporting him and
consequently he wasn't hampered for
the want of money. One reason why
he was not embarrassed for money
was that he obtained the greater part
of his loans in France.
What the profits of the syndicate
of which he was the head were is a
matter of speculation. One of his
brokers is quoted as saying that they
were about $7,OOO,OOO. That is very
much greater than the profits of Mr..
Sully, who ran corner earlier in the
season. Indeed, if accounts are cor
rect, the earnings of the Sully syn
dictate were hardly a third of those
of the Brown syndicate.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03

Georgia is making advances in grape
culture, as she is in so many forms
of industry. Reports from California
of the money there is in the business
should induce more Georgians to enter
upon it. BY the devotion of time and
labor and careful study to the culture
Of grapes they should be able to reap
some of the benefits from it that Cali
forians are enjoying. California
seems to be especially adapted by ma
ture to the growing of fruits, but that
state is so distant that Georgia, with
her natural advantages, should be
formidable rival. Georgia is much near
the markets of the North and East.
But, for that matter, there are cities in
the South that are invaded by Cali
fornia grapes and other fruit from the
Pacific slope. Surely Georgia horti-
culturists should be able TO produce
fruits that. with the advantage of
proximity to the markets, would keep
California products out of this terri
tory. In the Fresno belt of California,
nesting in a snug valley, lie thirty
acres that yearly net $4,000 to their
owner. They are planted in grapes.
The Emperor is the name of the Vari-
ETY. raised there. The grape is beauti-
full and luscious, and so large are the
punches that but one bunch is packed
in a crate. These punches weigh eight
to seventeen and a half pounds. A
woman's taste is largely responsible for
the popularity of these grapes in the
New York market. She knows how to
please and fascinate the feminine eye,
being a woman herself. She takes every
care to prevent the eye being affronted
ural beauty of the Emperor. She does
not stop at this. She employs arti-
fetal means to deck her goods for
market. Rich in autumnal tints are
the grapes. She cuts an immense
bunch, holding it always by the stem.
She ships off a defective or over ripe
grape here and there. The bunch be-
ing rendered perfect in this way, she
ties it up with narrow ribbons, the
colors of which harmonic delightfully."-
with the tints of the grapes. Among
carefully selected leaves, blushing in
the beauty of their autumnal touches,
she then packs the splendid product
of her vineyard, and it goes to New
York, where it delights the eye, as well
as the palate, of some fastidious leader
of fashion. Something of the same
care expended by Georgians would
render richer returns than are now de-
rived from their products.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03
THE PRESIDENT AND THE Ne
GROES.

The President adopted a policy of
dealing with the negro which he
thought would insure him the negro
vote of the North. He doesn't care
about the negro vote of the South,
because there is no Southern state
which he could carry If he should be
his party's candidate for President.
But it seems he has failed to please
the negroes of the North. In our dis
patches yesterday there was an ac-
count of the action of the Suffrage
League Of Boston. a negro organiza-
ton. in which it appears that the Pres
idents policy relative to the negroes
isn't satisfactory to the negroes of
the North.
That organization adopted a resolu-
ton on Tuesday night in which it
said that Booker Washington did not
represent the political views of the
negroes Of the North and that the
Presidents action in consulting him
in regard to matters pertaining to
the negro race, particularly in regard
TO applications for appointments, was
not satisfactory to it. In the resolu-
ton it adopted, speaking of Booker
Washington, it said: He is not a
fit leader for the colored race, and no
President who recognizes him as u
political leader should receive the col
ored vote of the North" The league
practically tells the President that he
will have to give up Washington or
lose the colored vote of the North.
Was it not Booker Washington who
advised the appointment of DR.. Crum
of Charleston? And it may be that
it was Washington who shaped the
Presidents policy in most Of the other
matters pertaining to the negroes. In
following his advice the President
doesn't seem to have pleased anybody.
Especially are the negro voters of the
North, whose good will the President
is particularly anxious to gain, since,
in several of the Northern states, they
hold the balance of power in close
elections, not pleased. These voters
don't like Booker Washington's policy
of avoiding race friction. They are
belicose, and want all the Southern
negroes to get into as much trouble as
possible.
And what is the President going to
do about it? Is he going to yield to
the demand of the Suffrage League
of Boston and give up Booker Wash
ington or is he going to take the chance
of loosing the negro vote of the North?
1t wouldn't be surprising If he were
tired of the entire negro question, but,
in view of the fact that the policy he
is pursuing was adopted for the pur-
pose of pleasing the negroes and cap
turing the votes of the Northern ne
groes the chances are that he will heed
the warning of the Boston negroes.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03

Rather a touching story comes from
the Far East, says the Paris CORE
spondent OF the London Telegram. 1t
is that of a soldier, who, by his gal
lantry is not only on the point of OBJ
tanning decoration, but is, moreover
SO fortunate as to have a sentence of
ten years imprisonment cancelled
Some little time ago the man, who is
serving in the Foreign Legion, risked
MS lie at the call of duty in Madagas-
car, and his colonel asked that he
should be rewarded with the Cross of
the Order Of the Legion of Honor. The
general in command replied that he
would be most happy to propose the
soldier for this distinction, but that he
must first of all, in compliance with
the regulations, furnish documents es-
tablishing his identity. Men who enlist
IN the Foreign Legion are not invaria-
bly, troubled with searching questions
about their antecedents, and many of
them enroll themselves under assumed
names. 1t had been the case with
this soldier, Who when he was in
formed of the conditions, declined to
supply the needed evidence about him
self. Later on the battalion was re-
moved to Tonkin, and there again the
brave fellow performed a feat of gall
lantry, which led his commanding Of
ticer to make another application on
his behalf. A like reply was returned
by the general, but this time the SOL
der decided on giving full details of
his previous life, and then it was as
certained that before he enlisted in the
Foreign Legion he had been condemn
ed to ten years hard labor for having
in the course of a scrimmage so in
jured man that he died. Considering,
however, that the soldier had by his
gallantry and good conduct atoned for
this blot on his record, the general
has sent in his name for the cross, and
he will probably obtain it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03

Il like to go to church" announced
Dottie, aged 5, according to Lippin-
colts, because they sing nice hymns
about flowers and insects and things
to eat, and the man in the nightgown
talks about birds"
why, Dottie," said her mother, I
don't think there are any hymns about
insects and things to eat"
There is So" insisted Dottie. Last
Sunday we sang a beauty hymn about
Bringing in the Cheese, and to-day
we sang one what began, Just as l
am. without one flea and when we
got through the man talked about
a hawk and two pigeons"
Subsequent inquiry revealed the fact
that the text had been, "Why halt We
between two opinions?"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03
index 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Lodge No. l F.
& A. NJ.
Special Notices Notice, Dr. L. A.
Smith.
Union Station Restaurant; Notice,
John B. Barthelmess; Union Vienna
Opened.
French Peas-A. NJ. & c. w. West.
Think 1t Over-Dr. NJ. Schwab & Son.
Before Takng-E. & w. Laundry.
Warburines-Rowln
Furnaces-Lattimore'
Louisiana Preserved Sugar Figs
Delmonico.
Medical-Herpieide; Grape-Nuts; Pc
runa; Wine of Cardui; Pinkham Rem
edy.
Railroads-Southern Railway.
Amusements-Savann Theater
The Good One-Savannah Steam
Laundry.
To-night-Last Night at South End.
Silverware-The Gorham Co.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03

If the Alabama Legislature is wise,
and we believe it is a very intelligent
body. it will kill the bill of Mr.. Wood
to withdraw from Booker Washing
tons school the small sum now appro-
priated to it by the state. The with
drawaI of the sum-$1, 500-would have
little other effect than to intensity race
feeling; besides which the school is
doing good work in training its pupils
TO be workers.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03

A Chinaman wants to know why it
is that Americans spend so much
money and send so many missionaries
to his country to persuade the Chinese
to go to heaven, and at the same time
deny them admission to the United
States He asks if those who are good
enough for heaven are not good enough
for America. But then these heathens
are given to asking impertinent ques-
fions.