The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, January 08, 1902, Image 1
VOL. XVII._ LAURENS, S. 0, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1902 NO. 23.
A Y?AR OP DEVELOPMENT.
The Progress . f the United Htatee
Never Equalled by any Nation.
Dun'a Review of January 4, 1902,
has the following summary of the
progress made iu a business way by
the Uuited States during the past
year:
Most marvellous of all tho pheno
menal evidences of advancement in
business during the year was the prog
ress made in manufacturing. It ia im
possible to be too extravagant in de
lineating the movements of iho indus
trial world. Never in the hiatory of
tbia or any other nation ha8 auch de
velopment occurred wilbiu the apace
of a twelvo-month. The expansion of
productive capacity was enormous, the
improved methods of work and or
ganization were conspicuous, wise eco
nomies were introduced, but more
than all other factors that made for
permanent prosperity was the conser
vative resist mice to price inflation.
After the reaction of 1900 the level
of prices remained depressed for aome
months, but gradually reaponded to
tho increasing demand as exceaaive
accumulations were absorbed. From
a condition of glut there arose almost
i a famine, greatly exaggerated by the
I stubborn strike. Some idea of the
I changes iu size of supplies may. be
I found in the comparison of furt ce
H Stocka of pig iron, us pubhahed in the
Iron Ago, which amounted to 548,603
? tons on January 1. These flgurea
? steadily declined throughout tho year
until only 223,462 tons were held on
December 1.
Aside from the alight fall duriug the
? peri (1 affected by the strike there ap
! pears almost a steady gain in produc
tion, closing with the maximum quan
ta tity on hand. Judging by the amount
I of business alieady placed for 1902 the
I current year's yield may not unreason
P ably be expected to surpass seventeen
million tone. Output of rails was be
yond all records, yet contracts for 1902
already assure another high water mark
of probably three million tons.
All records of output for bard and
Hoft coal were surpassed during 1901,
despite the scarcity of cata that re
tarded operationa. A feature of great
advantage was tho expanding move
ment, which reached more oncourag
' .g proportions than in previous years.
In t?n months the value of shipments
was 919,087,353, against $17,820,864
/ the year previous. Coke ovens made
a phenomenal record, establishing a
new high water mark of weekly output
- at 244,529 tone late in November.
I While 1900 waa the beat year ever
experienced by domestic agricultural
i inteiests, the opening year of the new
fe century was in many ways more pto
| fltable, and the two together have put
1 the farming population in much the
I moat saliafactory poaition in the na
tion's history. Formerly the season
of harvesting and crop-moving brought
?heavy borrowing of funds at the Mast,
?but interior conditions have changed
?to auch au extent that Western banks
Fare londora at New Yoik and Chicago,
I and while there is atill a large move
I ment of money away from the East
I during the fall months, it ia of funds
I that were held here for the account of
? Interior correspondents. There is a
[ steady tendency to enlarge the acreage
? sown in the leading crops, yet supplies
' do not increase, owing to the better
demand both for home consumption
and export. Heat and drought cauaed
a serious curtailment of the corn crop,
which proved the moat important event
of the year. Whilo this influence na
turally induced an advance in price
that practically prohibited exports and
thus seriously affected foreign com.
merce, it waa by no mean an unmixed
evil, since the return to growers waa
even larger than in a year of normal
production, while the enormous yield
of wheat was absorbed by Ptock feed
ing and foreign consumers in pi ice of
corn.
Hence, instead of a low price-for
wheat in proportion to the heavy crop,
there waa maintained an even higher
average quotation than in tho short
crop year preceding.
Meats naturally reflected the expen
sive position 'odder and it was
gratifying to n?kiee that exports were
not materially reduced by the high
level.
Cotton pasaed a season of wide varia
tions in the early months attaining the
highest Dries of the dicade, but falling
back tharply as the spinning situation
was rendered unfavorable by exorbitant
raw material. Crop estimates were
also far apnrt, causing irregularity and
a tendency to await more definite in
formation. The outlook grew . much
,J$n cheerful from* the producers'
v int of view when the closing month
V /ought a higher price than 8 cents.
Expanding crops of sugar had the
effect of lowering prices, white com
petition of rollner? caused a still larger
fall in the finished product, to the great
\ benefit of consumers.
\ Petroleum was less fluctuating, the
extremes of the year being 6.90, and
7.65 cents for refined in barrel cargoes.
Extensive fields in the South wore
developed, winch tended to hold prices
down.
Export? of staple products reached
a new high record, notwithstanding
the lower average prices of od and cot
ion and the scarcity of corn. The crop
year opened with a new recoid of
wheat and flour exports, amounting to
34,180,880 bushels in August, far sut- [
passing any previous month, while* fur
five months ending NovemW.N 80 tho
aggregate was 120,928,102 bushchw--'
In the year of big things it was nat
ural that new high records should be
recorded in deposits and loans. f inanc
ing of big syndicate operations and
unparalleled stock market dealings
combined to raise tho total of loans and
discounts to $914,028,000 on February
15, against 1825,830,000 on September
16, 1900, the top point of that year.
On tha same dato deposits attained
their eenlth at gl,011,829,000, com
pared with WH,810,800 on March 4,
1899, the record prior to 1901. At the
time of more than a billion deposit*
the haiikn uuiy feeiu in actual cash
9266 ,084,700, or $12,802,430 above the
25 por cent, legally required. On
March 2 there was a new deposit re
cord of ?1,012,614,000 but loaiw did
not attain their maximum until March
9, at $918,789,600.
The > ear of 1901 brought almost a
uniform decline of silver throughout
the entire period, culminating in Bales
during December at 21-9 Id in London
and 54 cents at New York. It is found
that but two months on record, August
and September 1897, found this metal
selling as low. At that time the bottom
was touched at 23 3 4, or about 2 cents
an ounce lower than the record of 1901.
UH IS NOT BILL ARP'S SON
Joel Smith, of Monticello, Pia,
la No Kin to Him and He Don't
Know Joel. ?
Atlanta Constitution.
Our Christmas is over, but the me
mory of it will linger long. Most ull
the kith and kindred gathored .*.t the
old homestead and brought love and
gladness with them. All the far away
oys save one were here and I uever
saw them bo happy before. Of course
we had prepared a Christinas tree lor
the little ones aud Santa Claus came
down the chimnoy nnd filled their
stockings and then filled the tree with
beautiful presents aud decorated it with
gorgeous ornaments. That anxious
expectation and wondor of tho little
ones is all over, but the oil mansion is
still wide open and running over with
happy children aud grandchildron and
Moore'? first verse was changed to
11 'Twaa tho night aftor Christmas -tho
rooms and the ball
Had tho holly and mistlotoo still on tho
wall,
The Christmas troo stands in tho parlor
forlorn,
Its beautiful hangings all given ami
gone."
Next day wo settled down to music
aud song aud the quiet enjoyment of
all the good gttis that Christmas
brought, includiug turkey Mid oysters
for diuner and turkey hash for break
fast every day whilo the boys were
wilh us. Thcso boys arc ull natural
boin musicians nnd whut wilh the
piano and tlute aud violin and half a
dozen sweet voices we had a choii of
our own, and when they got onto the
"buzzard lopo" and other hilarities the
gills formed a ring and danced and
pranced to concord of sweet sounds,
and ail of n sudden the maternal an
cestor lost her self-coutrol and j lined
tho procession aud bowed and curtsied
and chased all and held out her bauds
invitingly to mo. What could I do
but accept the uxorial banter and as 1
was about to take her hand in mine
and fly round, she Hashed her Poca
hontas eyes and declined my soft ap
proaches. She flirtod away on her No.
2 feet as gay as a girl and wont coquet
ting with one of the boys. That's the
way she tieals me now in my antiquity.
Time was when she was glad enough
to take my hand and keep it and dident
dare to play coquette at my expense.
But now I am discarded, andquo I re
tired from the ring singing that pathetic
old song:
"I'm the last roso of Bummor loft stand
ing alone,
My lovely companion has loft mo and
gone."
But the frolic is about over and the
children have settled down to the
calm oijoyment of their dolls and
horns and other toys and are still
happy. The day before Christmas it
was a touching sight to see some of
the old men slipping around slyly in
the stores.buying pretty things for the
homo folks. I met my good brother
Yarbrough waddling along about dark
with some bundles and under his arm
a new umbrella. He said tho umbrella
was for Htzekiah, his faithful servant
who had lived with him all these years,
and was true nnd tried and had never
owned an umbrella. That was good
and kind and was proof enough that
Brother Yarbrough belongs to our old
set and had sla/es to serve bun "befo'
de wah."
But, Mr. Editor, I am still perplex
ed. My Christmas pleasure has been
marred somewhat by ray pity for tho
poor credulous, dependent women ail
over the land who are the dupes of that
Monticello man. Every day brings
more letters from those who have long
since sent the $25 to my son at .Mon
ticello, Fla., and got nothing back.
Thoy say they trusted him because he
was my son. Many of them begged
or borrowed the $25, for they could
not got the subscribers, and so they
made up a list of names from their ac
quaintances and then they went to
work on the endless chain humbug and
got other women in to send more
mote and be duped. *
Now. Mr. Editor, I beg you to put
it in largo type and print it in red ink
that Joel Smith, of Monticello, is no
son of mine, nor do I know anything
of him or his paper. 1 saw a late issue
in which he boasts of having 40,000
subscribers, which I suppose means
$40,000 that these dependent women
have sent him. He promised them
$20 a month to write three hours a day
and some of them sold their jowelry
and other precious things to raise'the
$25. Mr. Editor, do please lend your
columns to slop this fraud upon our
poor South rn women. And now we
see that another endless chain papor
has started in Athens, Qa. These
frauds are bringing discredit upon the
pressend distress upon poor women.
I inclose a aatnplo circular. Please I
stop it. Kill It. Orush it. It is worse
than the cherry tree swindle. ?
Bjt.l Anr.
P. 8_I will give $10 to find out
who started that lie that the Monticello
man was my ton. I have received at
least fifty letteis saying, "Your son at
Monticello," ulc. They make me
tired. I had three from Texas this
morning. B. A.
Governor Odell in his message to the
New York Legislature, takes strong
sround against the opening of saloons
on Sunday, lie also discusses local
option as a settlement of tho liqUor
question.
GASTORIA
Vor Infante ?nd Children.
Till KM You Haw Always Boaghl
mn GOOD ROADS PROBLEM
Mayor Tolly Favora Federal Aid as
Suggested la Greenville
Tho following interesting letter from
Mayor Toi.y of Andorson, deserves
tho attention of the citizens of this
Slate :
To the Editor of Tho News and
Courier: 1 have road with some in
terest a recent article in your paper
from Dr. D. A. J. 11 of Paiksville,
concerning tho Go* d It. ads Conven
tion held in GrccuvlUe, aud I would
like to add soino words of my own.
I regard the couvenliou hold iu
Greenville as having beeu in many re
spects the most important hold in this
State within recent years. It was im
portant, not so much in point of iinme-.
diato visible lesults, but ou account of
its aims and purposes and tho ultimate
good that will bo accomplished, and on
account of the representative class of
men who were iu attendance. Tho Im
portance, tho neco8aity, of good roads
cannot be over-estimated, but has too
long been underestimated by tho peo
plo of the Stale, and it is hopeful and
encouraging to see such an awukened
and widespread interest being taken in
tho subject. It is vciy gratify tug to
sec at Greenville eucb men as Gen. M.
C. Butler, the Hou. A. T. Smyth, of
Charleston, Mr. F. II. Hyatt, of Colum
bia ; Ex-Governor Mauldfn aud Solici
tor Ansel, of Greenville \ tho Hon. D.
C. Heyward, of Walterboro; Congrcas
man A. C. Intimer, and many county
supervisors and municipal otlicers from
d.fferent pans of the Slate?meu of all
clauses of political opinions and of all
walks of life?met together for a com
mon purpose. I say it was an cucour
ing sign and great aud lasting good is
hound to come out of it.
I think one of the moat important
actions of the Convention was the
adoptlou of a resolution asking our
Senalois and Representatives in Con
gress to work for Federal appropria
tions for tho improvement of public
highways on the samo plan that ap
propriations aro now made for the im
provement of rivers and harbors. It
cannot be denied that good public
highways aro as necessary to the wel
fare aud growth of tho country as im
proved rivers aud harbors, and that a
vastly greater number of people will
bo benefited thereby.
It may bo argued by roiuo timt it
would be too great an undertaking for
tho government to go into the business
of improving the public roads. Here
aro somo facts that will completely
answer tbis objection : When it was
flrat proposed, some ten or fifteen years
ago, to give the people of tho country
free mail delivery such as enjoyed by
the people of tho cities the idea was
laughed to scorn. It was declared that
it would bankrupt tho govoinment.
Yet the rural mail delivery system is
going into operation all over the coun
try, and wherever it has been tri id
it has been found to woik suc
cessfully. There is but plight in
crease in tho cost over tho old system
of having many country postolllccs,
with tho star route mail riders, aud in
somo cases iho cost is even loss nnd
tho service is vastly improved. In
Anderson County there are now some
thiug like twenty daily rural mail
routes. There is no farmor in the coun
try who lives further than two miles
from a daily delivery route and he can
havo his mail delivered wherover he
places his box, while tho majority of
tho farmers have their mail delivered
every day at their doors. I have not
the exact figures at hand, but I nm told
that the system is practically self-sus
taining and that the free delivery sys
tern, instead of being a burden, is
really if anything a saving over the
old method.
I do not believe that Federal appro
priations for public road improvements
will provo at all burdensome, but that
it will bo the wisest possible expendi
ture of money. In addition to tho good
it will do in developing the interior of
tho couulry it will distribute some of
the government appropriations among
a class of people who havo never ic
ceived any of tho benefits of it and
whoro it will do tho most good. A
snifdl appropriation could bo made for
Federal roadbuildtng say in each coun
ty, aud this, supplemented by Stale
and county and possibly even town
ship aid, would in a short time give to
tho peoplo of this country such a sys
tom of public highways as the world
has never seen.
I was greatly impressed with this
scherao when it was proposed at Greon
villo and I have thought about it a
great deal since. The more I think
about it the more heartily in favor of
it do I become. I behove it will moot
with tho approval of any man who will
givo it consideration. 1 hope The News
and Courier and the other papers of the
State will take up the question and
agitate it, and I want to see our Sen
ators and Representatives in (.'engross
ocmply with the resolution adopted at
Greenville.
I hope there wilt bo a large allon
daoco at the meeting of tho Good
Roads Convention which ib to be held
in Charleston ou February 3. Every
one who was at Greenville should go
to Charleston and so many moro as can
possibly do so.
The question of good roads vitally
concerns the whole Stale and if we
will continue the good work commenced
at Greenville much practical good can
be accomplished. G. F. Tolly.
It has just ho< n annouueed that Qon.
H. W. Carpenter was tho donor of the
$100,000 presented to Columbia Uni
versity some time ago for the fopnding
of a cbait of Chinese language and
literature. The note which accom
panied tho letter of donntion'raid that
the money had been saved from to
bacco and whiskey. Gen. Carpenter
says that expression has been greatly
misconstrued. Most people, ho as
sorts, have construed the statement to
mean that the money- had been earned
in the tobacco and whiskey trade,
while he intended to say that he had
saved the sum donated by total absti
nence from tho use of lobacco andwht?
I.~t
indigestion
dyspepsia
biliousness
and the hundred and one simi
i lar ills caused by impure blood |
i or inactive liver, quickly yield j
i to the purifying and cleansing j
: properties contained in
torsaparilla
QUART BOTTLE.
It cures permanently by acting
: naturally on all organs of the
j body. Asa blood-cleanser, flesh- j
builder, and health-restorer, it |
has no equal. Put us in Quart i
Bottles, and sold at $i each.
"THB MICH.(1 AN BRIKI COMPANY."
Detroit, Mich.
9 T?ke Uverettcs for Liver Ills. ajC, ^
For Snlo by the Liuri na Drug Com
paDy, Laurenn, S. C.
SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE.
South Carolina Cotton Mills Are
Taking Care of the Children
1/ L. i'arham in A Hanta Journal.
That the Southern cotton mills are
doing something for tho moral uplift
ing of their operative? cannot bo do
tiied successfully. Tho 'Jliftou and
Cxlendalo mills err ploy about 2,2100,
paying them annually |300,000.;i The
raanageineut has expended largo sums
of money for the education of the
young. Able teachers aio employed,
often at tho expense of tho mills, nnd
the echo< >la are open nine mouths in the
year. Churches havo been ireeled
Where tho operatives may worship as
lliey see lit. Five stores aro operated
uear tho mills where, the operatives
may buy their goods actually 111 com
petition wilh cash storos, and they get
them on credit the snmo as if they
paid cash. Tho motto of the proprie
tors is" tho greatest good to the great
est number*" Tho operatives arc en
couraged to save their earnings and in
every other way mado to feel that
they havo something to live for.
The (taffney Manufacturing com
pany is auolhor i.lustration of whal
milt men aro doing for their opera,
lives. At Gaffncy tho tenement
houses are neat and well constructed,
some of them of brick, and scrupu
lously clean. The company stores arc
put there for tho convenience of tho
operatives, no checks used whntever,
aud tho operatives aro not compel led
to buy of them. A free school is op.
crated nine months in tho year for the
children and the cxpens s paid by tho
mill owner- .
The Courtenay Manufacturing com
pany at Nowry has also erected neat
cottages, all lathed and plastered,
painted inside and out of uniform
color. Everything is being done for
the comfort of tho operators. The
mills are lighted with electric lights,
steam heated and in summer fresh air
is forced all through every lloor, thus
insuring an agreeable temperature
throughout the year. A free school is
maintained nine months in tho year at
the company's expense.
Finally, tho l'clzer Manufacturing
company is also doing a great work for
tho operators in their immcuse mills.
They havo a 8100,000 school building,
tho teachers furnished free; beautiful
churches of all denominations, nnd a
library building with 0,000 volumes in
it, and a 1 irgo number of papers and
periodicals, furnished free by the com
pany. Compulsory education obtains
at these mills. Tho head of every
family working in thoso mills signs an
agreement boforo getting oiiiployineut
ilie. first clause of which says that all
children, members of any family be
tween the ages of flvo and twelve, shall
enter tho schools maintained by tho
company, and shall attend every school
day during the year unless prevented
by sickness, etc. As an additional in
ducement children who attend school
ovcry day, receive a roward of 10 cents
at tho end of each month. Lectures
wilh stcrcoptican pictures are also pro
vided, and are of tho highest ordor of
illustrative ontortainment. There is
no company store, and operatives buy
whore they please. No liquors aro
sold in Felzor, and tho people have
emphatically voted ogniust dispensa
ries.
Piedmont is still anothor illustra
tion, and there nro many others scat
tered throughout IliO Stalo. Lot tho
reader reraombor i hat tho story of tho
awful noglect and bad troatmcnt of
children by mill operatives is conjured
up by sentimentally <%nd labor agita-.
tore to work upon tY0|^; ipathy of tho
credulous public. V !)" are no doubt
some abuses, but nifL '?'nors uro fast
coining to roalizo tht . ra iod treatment
of their labor help p( ?i?>oth in tnonoy
and the consciousness t'f helping to up
lift tho poor who leave the farms to
tho negroes and go to town whero
schools and Hun-.'.in s, free libraries,
j parks and pleasure grounds conduce to
.their pleaauro and thoir educational
j advancement.
Henry Watteraon, the vetcian editor
of The Louisville Courier Journal, 1b
one of the hardest working men in the
nowapapor profession. Though well
advanced in years, ho gets to his olllce
every morning at 7 o'clock, which ne
cessitates very early rising, as he lives
twenty miles from Louiavillo and
drives to his olllce behind a spirited
pair of Kontucky marcs.
This is from a tombstone near We
tumpka, Alabama: "Honri Hlltor
Demi Hitler Emmi Hitter, Sweet Po
toto, Cream Tartar, Caioline Holtwick,
infant daughter of Bob and Sukoy
Catlin." It was i ho name of a Hti lo
negro girl.
OAOTonXA.
THJ5 PHILIPPINE PROBLEM
The American Constitution <?ml
Creed of Liberty Are Being Sorely
Tried.
Sooner or later wo must reach no
ultimatum with tho Filipinos. Already
the island and their incidents have
cost us nearly 8500,000,000 II >w long
tho people of this nation will consent
to pay out a half million of doll us
every day to prolong ibis experiment
in imperial colonialism is on uiiguess
able conundrum. But that they wil.
tiro of it eventually is certain.
What uro we doing iu tho blande,
anyhow? Certainly wo arc not pacify
ing them with dispatch and decorum.
True, overy once in a whilo the accom
modating typewriter of tho authorities
over there announces that " ihn war
is over," but before the typewritten as
surauco gets fairly ulloal tho cable
brings, news that the furtivo and pug
nacious Filipinos have bobbed up in a
fresh locality and boloed a platoon of
their pacilicutora. Forty thousand
soldiers is tho minimum force that so
oxpeiienccd and honest a lighter.ns
Genend Chaffee considers adequate to
maintain evcu tho present guerrill i
campaigns iu tho islands. Ho docs
not venture to say how many would
bo needed i > really hold tho inhabitants
in leash and peace. Tho truth seems
to be that wo are to havo war on our
hands in the archipelago just as lung
as wo seek to reduce it to suhjectiuu
and to the processes of our policy ol
Auicricnuiznliou of tho iuhabilunts.
Our experience is almost sure to be
i hat of the Dutch in their conquest and
possession of Java. At last wc will
havo to abandon tho government of
ihu pcoi lo to their own wills and me
thods, leave them totl.eirowu domestic
cubIoiu8, iiiBtitutiouH nnd pursuits,
aud ourselves hold only the seaports,
whereby to profit by tho trade aud tri
bute that we can compel tho natives to
ijivo to us alone. We can quarantine
them against tho world and their only
commerce must bo wilh us. Ueyoud
that wo will always lind it difficult,
dangetoii8 and disastrously expensive
to go.
Thus fur, if reliable reports bavo
been made by our statesmen and si 1
diers who have becu in the isluntls, we
have mnde little progress in commend
ing to tho Filipinos our typo of wettern
civilization. Wo uro slowly finding
out for ourselves whut the Spaniards,
alter three hundred years of clToit,
could hnvo told us at lirst bund. A
majority of thoao Malaysian tribes uro
undoubtedly us uncivilizublo us the
American ludiuns. The imposition
upon them of tho restraints nnd re
quirements of our civilization is tho
imposition of u bondage of death. It
means the slower, porh ips, but equally
sure extinction of tho Filipino as it
did of tho West Indian under Spain
and the North American Indian uuder
our own dominance. Instinctively the
Filipinos resist the proceests that they
kuow will end in their destruction us a
people. Turbulence, lawlessness und
barbaric wurfaro must always attend
our policy of benevolent assim lalion.
Nor are wo entering upon a promis
ing career of Chrisliuniztitiou among
them. Tho Roman Culhtl.c friars,
who are more adopt in tho art of con
verting the heat hen to Christian for
mularies than we, have but a meager
fruitage to bonst from their century
long efforts with the Filipinos. Those
o'f them who uro professed Cntholics
uro not eager candidates for our Pro
testant prosolytism hud those of them
who udbero to the Mohununednn re
ligion are likely to yield oven less to
our western Christian cults than they
have to the friars und tho fuith of
Rome.
In the cducu iouul Held wo huvo bo
gun with n system und an enthusiasm
ridiculously in excess of tho demands
of tho situation. Our plans are about
on a par with those of an exuberant
drummer trying to induct the tropical
native into a suit of woolens, Waukon
fatt shoes, an ulster and a plug hat
Mr. Fred W. Atkinson, the Ainorlcau
superintendent of education in the is
hinds, makes a very futile report of his
(?labor ue, endeavors' to SOt lip the, MaS
aachusotls pub'io school schemo in the
archipelago. At tho head of the
Springfield High school, with ample
means iu contioi, with eager, intelli
gent, aml.il ions VOUUg Americans for
material, Mr. Atkinson was conspi
cuous US an educational ei t crpriser.
Uut in tho Philippines ho has run his
nose against a hard proposition. A
'housaud American teachers; us inupt
\ the onvironinont to which they have
bo u transplanted na polar boars would
bo ki Florida, ihoy are floundering
abou. in discomforts and disgust?, yet
fatuoiitdy trying to cram modern educa
tion into the Filipino kida according to
the strict rules of Froebol. Poalallo/.i
and Horncu Mann.
Tho civil governments which our
academic commission aro organizing
appear I) be fearfully and wonderfully
devised to produce rather than rcduco
chaos. Their lo^islativo features would
givo Solon a pain in tho neck and cause
Justinian a nouralgia uudcr Ins bump
of equity. Tho Filipino is tho slave of
ingrainod tribal traditions a- (I prac
tices, or el so tho truculont product of
tho Latin idea of absolutism in gov orn
ment. As a drilled nu>l commciidablo
citizon he is ns imitative as a monkey
and as repetitious as a parrot. Our
effort to i ivest him with self-govern
iug authoiity and a sense of democratic
refponsibi'ity is a freakism that pales
any proposition that evor blew olT tho
proliUc polltioal prairies of Kansas. It
is bound to end in abortions of govern
ment that will humiliato us in tho eyos
of the wh ile world.
What to do with this groat brown
elephant that we bought in at the
Spanish bankrupt sale is a question
that is now up to Congress. The eu
preme court, as far as human appre
hension can understand its deliver
ances, has said that Congress, repre
senting the legislative sovereignly of
the nation, can adequately legislato |
tha system that shall obtain in theso
Island possessions. The question hangs
yondor in thecapitol, swaying between
the raagnetio poles of imperialism on
tbo one band aud a probationary pro
tectorate on tho other hand. It chal
lenges the American constitution and
tho American creed of liberty alike for
a rational and ju t settlement. That
settlement will affect our owu system
oven as vitally as thai or the Philip
pines, but what will it be??Atlnuln
Constitution,
QUESTION OFI.RUCIPROCITV.
A New Solution Suggested lor the
Chinese Problem
Atlanta Constitution.
Kev. T. P. Crawford, the oldest mis
sionary to China, who is now visiting
in Atlanta, bus been a missionary to
China for the past fifty years. He has
grown old in the service, but is still
activo' and proposes to return to the
(bid next spring. Dr. Crawford re
turned to America in June, 11)00, hav
ing been forced lo lly ior his life iu
order to escape from the boxers Ho
was located at Tai An Fu City, in the
interior of Cbiua. Ho is thoroughly
familiar with the situation in Chinu
ami uinlerst uuds the Chinese character
well. Hoi greatly interested in the
immigration 1 iws, which promise to be
an inteiesting qut&.ion before tho pre
sent Congress.
" I have thought over tho Chinese
immigratt n matter for a long time,"
said Dr. Crawford, "and have given
the subject deep Study. I have reach
ed conclusions and have theories that
1 believe are practical. The question
is rue that cannot he setll-.d in a day
and must not be entered into with un
duo haste.
" in the province in winch I wta lo
cated tbera aro :j(>,u00,<)00 Cinnamon
and tho area of this pio/inco is no
greater than the State of Georgia.
Every available inch of land there and
in all oilier parlB of China is in a high
.state of cultivation. Chinamen who
possess as much as 8 acres of 1 tnd are
regarded as well to-do. T1'- great
majoiily have less than lb mny
ucrcp. They are crying for land, ihey
uro iho most capable agriculturists in
tho world and arc. a patient, law-abid
ing people.
44 Now wo ore going to send our cot
ton to tho West, hut what arc wo to
toko from them in rolurn? Jf wo go
ahead and gob! lo up everything in
sight it will leavo them poor, and poor
customers are hardly desirablo. We
niu?t endeavor to reciprocate by build
ing up this pcoplo and making them
wealthy. They n o crying lor land to
cuhivate and we have this lo give them.
In the Southern Slates there are
thousands of acres of land that would
inak ? excellent 1 ice fields if propeily
cultivated. The while people cantiol
cultivate it and the negroes will not.
The hills of Georgia are as rich as any
section of China, and will yiold the
same crops that arc hai vested there by
Ohineao farmers every year. Why not
h t tho Chinaman come here and culti
vate ibis land, thereby helping thein
se ves and helping us?
" I do not even suggest that the
doors of the country lie throwu open
to tho Chinese pcoplo. On the con
trary, my thory is to have each State
that warns Chinese farmers to decide
upon tho number it will take, by legis
lation or otherwise, and icquest the
national government to admit that
utimber. Congress can pass laws con
trolling these aliens so that they will
live only in the States to which they
come. 1 would oppose permitting them
to congregat*) in one State or city.
They should be leased a certain num
ber of acres of land for a long term of
years. They will bo glad of tho op
poi Utility and much good would result
both lo the immigrants and lo this
country. Tho matter could bo regulat
ed so that only able-bodied and indus
trious Chinamen could take advantage
of tho law and none of tlic riffraff
would drift iu. You can sec at a glance
i hat the question is a, great ouo and
ono that needs be given careful con
sideration.
*? As a far.ner, the Chinaman is one
of the most industrious creatures on
earth. Ho raise* two crops on his
f,u m overy >ear and does this year
after year, livery bit of ground is en
tirely under cultivation and it is a mis
take to Lit ink that nee is the only edible
raised there. Wheat, millet and sor
ghum are equally as populur and ore
raised in a climate that corresponds
with the climate in Georgia.
" Mine are, of course, only tho views
of one man, but after having been in
Cluua for the past lilty years and
knowing the Chinaman as 1 do, I am
convinced that the theory 1 have men
tioned is one thut it will he will lo in
vestigate, even if nothing ever comes
of it. There is a pleasure in woikiug
for what you believe to be right, oven
if your 1 tbors nro lost, and honest
labors uro never without results."
Had II is Suspicions.?Tim Murphy
bud run up a email bill nl Iho villigc
shop. Hu went to pay it and wantod
a receipt.
'?Oh, we nevor give receipts for these
small amounts," grumbled the proprie
tor. 44 Sue, I will cross your account
off the book." And lie drew a pencil
diagonally across it. There is your
receipt," ho added.
?? Do ye umuo that that settles it?"
ask tl Tim.
?? Certainly."
44 And ye'll niver bo asking for it
again?"
?? We'll never ask you for it again,"
said the other decidedly.
? Faith, thin," said Tun, "and I'll
oo after kupiu' ino money in mc pocket,
for I haven't paid it yet."
? Oh, Well,'' was the an?ry retort,
44 I can rub that out."
?? Faith, and 1 thought as much."
Bfti.l Tim sly ly.
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IN A HUMOROUS 'VEIN
44 Divorces," said the man who
wanted to talk and philosophize, "cost
more than marriages."
44 Certainly," said the practical man;
44 why not? They are worth more."?
Life.
44 Do you happen to know anythtug
of your matter's whereabouts?" at-ked
a wife who was looking for hor hus
band. 44 I'm not sure, mem," said the
careful servant, 44 but 1 think they're
in the wash."?Youth's Companion.
Miss Trill?I love to hear tho birds
sing.
Jack Downright (wnrmly)?So do I
They never attempt a piece beyond
their ability.?Tit Rils.
44 No," declared tho Frco Thinker,
44 I will never havo any faith in hell "
44 True," replied the good mi>n, 44 if
you aro lo havo any faith nt all you
had better have it here."?Catholic
Standard.
44 Mr. Meekton's wife said yesterday
that she was never going to speak to
him again," said the woman.
44 You dou't say so 1" exclaimed her
husband. 44 Is sho angry, or trying to
bo consideiato ?"?Washington Star.
44 Now, Johnny," said tho Sunday*
school teacher, ?4 you may tell us what
a prophet is."
?4 Why," replied .lohnuy, 44 it's a fel
low that's always looking for a chanco
to say 4I told you so.' "?Philadelphia
Pi ess.
?'Well, what aro you sneering about?
You don't sei m to have much faith iu
tuy good resolutions."
441 was just wondering if you had
taken tho pr.viug contract for the next
world."?Rrooklyu Lifo.
44 Undo Claronco, what's tho dif
ference between a fad and a hobby?"
44 Will, a fad sometimes gels tired
and let's go; but a hobby never does."
?Puck.
Chemist (to poor woman)?44 You
must tako this medicine lluco times a
day, after meals."
Patient?44 Rut, sir, 1 seldom get
meals these 'ard times,"
Chemist (passing on to next custom
er)?44 Thon tako it boforo them."
44 Sorry for you, old man," said the
Job's comforlor. 44 Or. Prico will
keep you under his care for at least a
week."
41 Why," exclaimed the invalid, "I'm
not so ill as all that." 44 I know, but
the doctor's wife told my wifo 8ho had
struck him for n now dress."?Philadel
phia Record.
" Yes," stidthe aristocrat, 44 1 wna
indignant, and I wroto him that tho
clandostino rinrriugc of our son to his
daughter was a blot on (he fumily
escutcheon, and his only reply was to
send mo an advertisement of a new
brand of soap he is just putting on ihe
market."?Chicago Post.
?? Your friond Jigloy failed in tho
woolen business, didn't he?"
44 Yos, he was a yarn munufacturor,
and he's started up again in tho same
hue."
" That so?"
44 Yea; he's press agent for a circus
now."?Philadelphia Pross.
44 So your husband died while you
were abroad?" said tho hostess.
44 Yes," replied tho young widow of
old Mr. Skinflynt, with an appropriate
ly mournful sigh, 14 poor John has gono
to his final roward."
I 44 Heg paidon," said the hott, sud
denly, ,4 that reminds me 1 must go1
down and look at the furnace lire."?
Philadelphia Press.
Hudyard Kipling says that ho was
once presented to a young lady who
almost immediately began to whimper,
a id whose oyos wore so full of tears
that he felt compellod to ask If she
wcro ill or if anything woro the mat
ter. Looking at him botween her sobs,
the disappointed maiden broke out:
" Oh, 1 thought you were so tall and
so haudsome I"
" I hear O'Brien is working again,"
said tho barber.
?? Yes," said tho bailiff. He's work
ing for the traction company."
441 thought it was for the teiepf
company." '
44 No, the traction company J^^^j
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GKRMAN KAU WORKS,
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they call the street-car company."
" What do they call tho telephone
company ?"
"The distraction company, I guoss."
?Chicago News.
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, and
Governor Shaw, of Iowa, woro onco
stumping Kentucky, aud after a suc
cessful meeting wero piloted to a bar
room by tho Kentucky colonel, who
had them in charge. ?? What'll you
have ?" he aekod Sonator Fairbanks.
"A little cold Apollinaris," was tho
reply. ?? A-ul you? "said tho host to
Governor Shaw. 44 I thick I will have
a glass of buttermilk." The bartender
turned to the Kcntuckinu. 44 What
shall I give you, Colonel?" ho aeked.
Tho Kentucky gentleman heaved a
long sigh. 44 Under the circumstances,"
he said, 44 I think you enn give mo a
p5 - co of pie."
FROM A BACHELOR'S VIEW.
The beet way to avoid marital mis
understandings is to avoid the wholo
marital business.
To sympathize with those who aro
dowu in the world it is necessary for
you to get down there youiself.
A woman who will ask another wo
man to show her how to do tatting al
most thiuks enough of her to be her
friend.
Ver?atihlv is not a woman's strong
point. Before ruarringc she sighs to
thiuk how happy she is going to be,
ai.d afterward she sighs to think how
happy f<hc thought she was going to
be.
The way to get a woman to forgivo
you is not to forgive her.
Generally you can get an idea of the
enthusiatm a woman puts into a
spanking by iho way f-ho jerks out her
basting threads.
The average man who gives advice
is liko a road post?ho doesn't tell you
to stay where he is, but to go whero
ho points.
A married man's trouble begins
when he is engaged.
It isn't on what income ono can get
married, but on what incomo ono can
live after getting niarriod.
No woman can ever account lor her
husband's lack of interest in her diplo
ma and tho photograph of her llrst
suitor.
The way to convince a woman you
love hor is to sit in abstraction for a
long time and than say with a start
that you were thinking of the first day
you ever saw her.
The surest way to get rich is to quit
I being poor.
Force of habit has a good deal to do
with the way some peeple go on loving
each other.
When a lucky man gfcts it into his
head that he is a great man, ho is duo
to lose his luck.
It's worse to bleach your hair than
to wear a wig, but you could offer a
million dollars reward for a woman
with hair on her he d who would agree
with you, and you' never find her
A Nkw EmuALMINO Fluid.?Tho
Memphis Medical college has for sev
eral weeks been experimenting with
an embalming tluid Tor which great
possibilities arc predicted. It is as
sured that ttiis discovery is superior to
tho embalming preparation used by tho
Egyptians, for while tho infusion will
preserve tho subject for all time, hu
manly speaking, as did that of tho
ancients, it prevents the shriveling up
that was inseparable from Egyptian
embalming and it docs not call for tho
swaths and bandages in which all
Egyptian mummies rverc encased.
The principal experiment up In this
time has been upon the body of a dog,
which was treated thirty days ago.
Todny it looks as natural as iu life.
It is rigid, but in a perfectly natural
poso. There is no traco of odor about
it, nor is there any other visible symp
tom of decay.
Tests of the tluid have been made by
tho demonstrate at tho Memphis col
lege, and ho is so well convinced of its
practical utility that ho will uso it for
the preservation of all tho cadavers
used iu the college
The tluid petrifies the. body. Neither
arsenic nor strychnine is usod in tho
preparation.
The. land speculator* will soon be in
.clover *n iho Philippines. There are
over {) ,000,000 acres of land in the
Philippine islands, and, while it is im
possible to say with any accuracy how
much of the land Is owned by private
interests, it is belioved that at loast r>0
per cent, will come under tho class!,
flcatlon of public domain.
It. II. Hays, a member of the Bj?
sition committee for (}reei^woibdt> eat"
ty, has sorao pieces of timber foujo or
Exposition which wero gottyn out
a whipsaw some years ^.rovlonV
1800. This timber is sound and .
track of the whipsaw is diatlnc
shown.
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