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THE CHRONICLE.
A DHMOCRAT1C NKWKrArnr.
TBlIUhel TTecilr nt Camden, Tent.
Hettrtti at Cam.lea as Sccond-Claaa
Us.ll Matter.
TJIATIS mos., roUhfccri,
Camden, Tcnn,
Tlie automobile will cci tninly bring
about great hang(ji among all sorts
aud conditions of men. Tho machine
is but in it? infancy uow, it may be
called a mere baby in compiin-iou with
what invention and pi-ogres will
rn.ike.it. In our rural tlnti-icta it b a
great curiosity uow, but before mauy
years have jiasHod away a horse in
the.e same districts will be a far
greater curiosity than an automobile.
Another great year far American
wheat is in prospect, a concomitant
nbortage in other sources of
European supply helping matters
along for onr farmers. Nothing could
be more welcome. We are carrying
au unnsaal load of taxation. Im
mense aud far-reachiug constructive
projects are in the full flush of opera
tion, and another year of agricultural
prosperity is absolutely necessary for
their substantial completion.
Massachusetts keeps at the hsad of
the states ol the country in tho pre
cision, celerity and accuracy with
which its election returns are can
vassed and the results tuado known.
There are 970 polling places in the
etato, of which 191 are iu Boston and
877 in the 31 other cities. In New
York slato the use of iho voting
machines ia au aid to quick and ac
curate counting. In the elections of
1899 Rochester was the first city from
which returns were obtained. Voting
machines were nsed in Rochester.
Croquet "as moderuly playeJ," to
use the picturesque words of one of
its most eminent jn-actitiouers, is un
doubtedly a game of mauy and high
merits, and just why the very mention
of it is sufficient to make the average
worldling smile with a contempt not
the more kind because it tries to be
tolerant is a question not easy to
answer. ,As between golf and croquet,
any disinterested observer that is
any observer who, without the help
of experience in either, should try to
compare them would almost inevita
bly declare that croquet "had more to-"
it" than golf, gave more opportunity
for the display of intelligence and
skill, developed more directly the joys
of battle, and in a dozen other ways
was the better game.
A remarkable work is being done by
a yonng colored man in Chicago, and
the recital of it may be an inspiration
to others. Monroe F. Clark ia his
name, and he is a full-blooded negro,
23 years old. lie went to Chicago
from Kentucky in the world's fair
year, with no money, but with a fairly
good education for one of his meagre
opportunities, and with good morals
and ambition. He became a newsboy,
aud his attention to business and his
thrift soon enabled him to buy a
hone and wagon to use iu his growing
news business. Now he owns and
uses eight carts and horses, and has a
smart trap in which to drive around.
He owns real estate in the city worth
some thousands of dollars, and also
1G0 acres of land in Kentucky. Clark
is also a philanthropist in a small way.
Three years ago he established a home
for his newsboys, uow numbering 50,
the great majority of them negroes.
He couldn't bear, he says, to see the
little fellows "going straight to the
reformatory and to the penitentiary,"
so he renovated a rented barn, and
provides their board, lodging, aud
recreation. He is ambitious now to
build a good house for his boys. He
has the money, aud is only waiting to
secure the right piece of ground. "It
eats np a good deal of my profits,"
he says. "It costs me ' more to feed
and clothe these boys and send them
to school in winter than it would to
hire them and let them shift for t'uem-
eelves. But I'm not very hungry fo
money never was."
Horrible Fate of Infant.
The home of Rev. W. A. MacDonald,
about seven miles from Colquitt, Ga.,
was destroyed by fire early Wednes
day morning. One of his infant chil
dren was left ia the house and burned
to ashes.
ADJUTANT GORBIH
HAKES REPORT
Olves Some Interesting Tlurcs Re
gardlng Ills Department.
CIIANOES RECOMMENDED
Work of Recruiting and Mu8tor
ug Out Troops Ia Detailed.
Tho annual report of the adjutant
genoral of tho army, Brigadier Gen
eral Corbin, to the secretary of war
was made public Wednesday. Aside
from the strictly technical recital of all
the details of a busy year in military
life, the report gives much information
of un interesting general character,
and submits numerous recommenda
tions for the betterment of tho servioe.
General Corbin ums up the mili
tary forces now in the service of the
United States as regular array, 04,586;
volunteers, 34,574; total, 99,160. The
regular establishment consists of ten
regiments of cavalry, seven of artil
lery and twenty-five of infantry. The
volunteer establishment consists of
one regiment of cavalry, twenty-four
of infantry and a Forto Rico battalion.
The distribution of these troops np
to Oct. 1st, last, was as follows:
In the United States, 24,229; Porto
Rico, 3,8f3; Cuba, 11,187; Philip
pines, 32,315; en route to the Philip
pines, 17,099; Alaska, 499; Hawaiian
islands, 4GG.
General Corbin adds the following
to this summary:
"It is expected that by December
1st, next, all the infantry regiments,
United States volunteers, shown above
as in the United States, will have
sailed for the Philippine islands.
These, with the troops now there, will
give a total strength of 2,117 officers
and 63.G08 enlisted men.
The service of many troops after
their eulistmonts had expired causes
General Corbin to Fay in his report:
"The patriotism of the regulars and
volunteers, who enlisted only for the
war with Spain, by willingly and ac
tively serving after the expiration of
their terms of service, calls for evi
dence of appreciation, and it is recom
mended that each officer and man of
the several volunteer organizations
who continued in the service in the
Philippine islands after the 2nd of
Maroh, 1899, until honorably dischrg
ed, be awarded a suitably inscribed
medal."
General Corbin pays a tribute to the
officers of the now colored regiments,
drawn from the non-commissioned
officers of the colored regiments in
the regular army, or from those who
saw service in the war with Spain,
and says it is believed the best equip
ped men of the colored citizenry have
been commissioned. During the year
there have been 02,175 enlistments
and re-enlistments, of which 63,024
were native born and 9,151 foreign
born. In point of color 56,154 were
white, 6,000 colored and 20 Indians.
The following reoommendation is
made for extra pay for officers serving
in our new possessions:
"The pay of all officers below the
grade of brigadier general should be
increased at least 33J per cent while
on duty in Cuba or our new posses
sions. Most of these gentlemen have
families that they are unable to have
with them, and are, therefore, com
pelled to maintain two establishments.
Also, that provision be made that all
officers below the grade of major gen
eral who retire by reason of age or
wounds received in action shall do so
on the next grade above the rank held
by them in the regular army on the
date of their retirement."
BY POPULAR VOTE.
Georgia Legislature Changes flethod
of Electing; Commissioners.
The Georgia house of representatives
Wednesday passed the bill introduced
at the last session by Mr. Speer, of
Sumpter, providing for the eleotion of
the railroad commissioners by the
people. The vote was ll4 to 17 in fa
vor of the measure.
The bill, as it passed, contained an
amendment providing that the com
missioners Bhould be elected for terms
of two, four and six years, respective
ly. The amendment proposed pro
scribing the eligibility cf candidates
was voted down. The effect, is to make
any one eligible for the position of
commissioner.
OUR ADVERTISING 11 ATE &
ARE EXTREMELY LOW, AND
ARE A GREAT INDUCEMENT
FOR BUSINESS MEN TO PA
TH ONIZE O UR COL UMNS. Til J
US
Glass Makers Confer.
A secret conference of window glass
manufacturers outside of the combine
was held at Pittsburg, Pa., Friday to
consider the advisability of forming an
independent organization.
It was practically decided to oom
bine their interests and capitalize the
concern at $15,000,000.
Will MI IIOI.DINO ON.
Ilngfartil I'lenurd ct Our IMJ.'rtces of
Sympathetic I'e-.ll.iz.
A London kj lu-ial my: The war
oftlco Lns received a trhvram dis-
patched from Laljfmlth at 9:2."
Thursday iturnitig Having that Gen
eral White was well and holding his
position.
An offifial telegram rrporting the
condition of the wounded at Kirnber-
ley adds that Colonel Kekewitch, tho
British commander there, has learned
from various sonrces that the Boer
louse on the occasion of tho late
roi tio of the P.ritish troops from Kim
I erley wore very heavy.
The London newspapers -continue
to express keon pleasure at tho sym
pathy of the United States. The St.
James Gazette says:
"Few more gracefnl examples could
be imagined of the courteous spirit of
American tympathy with this country,
which has been so often evident of
late, than the project of tho American
ladies' hospital ship, which will
be fitted out with many of those Amer
ican nurses whose services were so
highly valued during the Cuban war.
This is the first example of a hospital
ship provided by a nation which is at
peace for another during the stress of
war, and the widespread and gener
ous responses to its appeals from both
sides of the Atlantic show howjwarcily
the merciful idea is acceptod by the
citizens in both countries."
PLEASES AFRIKANDERS.
They CHoat Over the Vitorles Won By
ths Boers.
The Havas agency at Paris publish
ed the following extraordinary dispatch
Thursday which the agency says was
received through its correspondent at
Brussels:
"Caps Town The news of tho
Boers' two victories around Ladysmith
has created considerable excitement
among the Afrikanders who do not
conceal their joy. Sir Alfred Milner,
the .British high commissioner, is
much prrtubated at their attitude.
General White, in these two engage
meats lost about 350
wounded and prisoners,
victory was won by tho
commanded by Lucas
men killed,
The second
Free Stators
Mever, who
seized Colonso, thus cutting off the
retreat of General White, who is
wounded. The investment of Lady
smith is complete, aud the Boers are
masters of Pietermaritzburg and the
Durban railway.
"News has reached General Whito
that Mafeking is closely beseiged, and
that the Boers have successfully re
pulsed the sorties. The surrender of
Mafeking is expected.
FUNSTON BRINQSSUIT.
Archbishop of Ireland and a Catholic
Paper Charged With Libel.
A special to The Kansas City Star
from Albuquerque, N. M., says:
General Frederick Funston, who is
e n route home with the mustered out
Twentieth Kansas, has wired his
Topeka attorneys, Gleen, Ware &.
Gleen, to bring proceedings against
Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, for
criminal libel 'because of statements
attributed to the archbishop in a re
oent interview.
General Funston also instructed his
lawyers to begin criminal and civil
proceedings against the Monitor, a
Catholio paper of San Francisco,
which first printed the story.
In a recent interview in Chicago,
Archbishop Ireland was quoted as say
ing that General Funston had been
charged with looting Catholic churches
in the Philipines. The charges alleged
to have been referred to by the arch
bishop were made by the editor of
The Monitor, soon after the landing
of the Kansas troops in San Francisco
The Monitor stated, it is said, that
General Funston had taken two mag
nificent chalices from a certain church
in the Philippines aud had sent them
home to his wife. Arohbishop Ire
land in his Chicago interview was
quoted as calling upon General Funs
ton to deny the truth of the artiole and
sue the editor of The Monitor for libel,
or the publio would be obliged, against
its will, to believe him guilty of the
criminal acts of which ho has been ac
cused. Ceuntlnz Dead and Wounded.
A special dispatch received in Lon
don from Ladysmith Bays twenty Brit
ish dead and 100 vrtunded were count
ed on the scene of Monday's disaster,
while 870 prisoners were sent to Pre
tolla.
SPANIARDS REVENQEFUL.
Thosa In Philippines Ask Otis' Negro
Troops to Revolt.
Advices from Manila say that Colo
nel Smith, at Anceles, has sent to
General MacArthur a placard in Bran
ish which was found called to a tree
outside the lixie. It was an appeal to
the colored troops to join the insur
trenie in the fight for freedom and ie
ferred to "your brothers, Sam Hose
and Gray, whose blood calls aloud for
vengeance."
CHI AXTXRTISIN& RATH ASS
EXTREMELY LOW, AND ARE
O RE AT INDUCEMENT FOR BUSI
NESS MEN TO PATRONIZE OUR COL
UMNS. TRY US.
OUR AGREEMENT
WITH THE SOLUS
President Schurmm Throws UM On
the Subject.
SATISFIES ALL CONCERNED
Intorferenco With Prosont Cus
toms Ia Unnecessary.
A Washington dispatch Fays: In
view of the current discussion of the
military agreement between General
Bates and tho sultan of Bui a the views
of Pi-csidcut Schurman, of the Philip
pine commission, on the subject aro
interesting.
Mr. Schurman was one of tho first
Americans to viait Jolo, tho seat of
Spanish government in the Sulu archi
pelago, and hod an extended interview
with the sultan before the arrival of
General Bates. Tho orrangeinents en
tered into between General Bates and
the sultan was considerably influenced
by this meeting.
Although the full agreement with
the Sultan has not been made public
by the Washington authorities, it can
be stated that it practically conforms
to the provions convention existing
between the Sultau and tho Spanish
government. In this agreement Spain
never claimed anything more than an
external proteotorate over the Sula
group, the right to suppress piracy in
its waters and to prevent the periodic
migrations of tho oathbound Moham
medans who went to the northern
islands under a vow to kill Christians
and thus secure an entrance into Par
adise. Professor Schurman said when ques
tioned about the probable continuauce
of polygamy and slavery in the islands
after they came under tho American
dominion that this was a subject
winch would have to bo dealt with in
the most careful fashion to
ultimately satisfactory solution. He
aid:
"It seems to me that were it not
for the ignorauce displayed, the pres
out hue and cry about polygamy and
slavery in these islands would be ab
solutely criminal. In taking over the
Sulu group wo have acquired no rights
of any sort there excent those be
queathed us by Spain. She was bound
by her agreement with the sultan not
to interfere with the relitrion or cus
toms of the lslanas and it would be
most unwise for us to attempt this by
orco wneu it can be ultimately ac
complished by the slower method of
civilization and education.
"The Sulu group proper contains
abont 100,000 inhabitants. They
all Mohammedans, as are about
000 of tho residents of Mi
directly east. To attempt to interfere
with the religion of these people
would precipitate one of the bloodiest
wars in which this country has ever
been engaged. They are a different race
physically and mentally from the resi
dents of the v iscayan isles powerful
men and religious fanatics of the most
pronounced type, who care nothing for
death and believe the road to heaven
can be attained by killing Christians
Polygamy is a part of their religion,
and slavery, about which so much is
being said just now, is a mild type of
feudal bondage.
"The sultan believes from what he
nas seen oi Americans that they are
ready to be friendly and deal honestly
by him. Our soldiers aud officers al
ready gravel into the interior of Jolo
wim perfect impunity, where bpan
iards never dared to set foot. It has
bean suggested iudirectly to the sul
tan that he should maintain an Ameri
can of good standing as a confidential
adviser at his court to aid him in the
work of material development for
which the beautiful group of islands
is ready, and which is bound to come
when they are thrown in touch with
the civilized. I believe that he will
take kindly to this suggestion."
RETURNING STWAQQLERS.
Members of Stampeded Regiments
Showinz Up at Ladysmith.
A special dispatch recieved in Lon
don from Pietermaritzburg, Natal,
dated Tuesday morning says:
"Stragglers from the Gloucestershire
regiment are arriving at Ladysmith.
A number of mules with a portion of
the mountain battery are also coming
in."
jtctep aorean ej tnese etirrzng nmet
by tubscribuiff for your hom paper.
The nrice is Utile, and you cznnol
qjford to be without it.
COMPETITION NOT WANTED.
Telephone People In Chattanooga
Ready to Reduce Rates.
It has been announced in Chatta
nooga on good authority that the Eaot
Tennessee Telephone company, in or
der to circumvent the new company
now applying for fracchisc-s on the
streets of the city, has made a propo
sition to the city council that if the
new company is denied a charter it
will reduce rates on business tele
phones to 3G and private instruments
to 818 per year.
" Yea Cant Catch the
Wind in a Net'
.'-.' 'mr can yon a:ie cnt.irth ty LxaI
tyi.tt;or.s. It is a consUtuUsntl disease,
ad is cured by lLnyfs Sjr$.p,vu!,i be
cause if is ,i cut'.zli'viiinil rtmtJj. It
expels from the LlocJ the imparity
which CAnsci the di:eAc, and rebuilds
tnd repairs the inflamed membrtnes.
Sparrow Corner.
A tnnn In (ii'orjcl.a some thno ngo
caiiKht Huv.io sparrows and trained
them so that h can open their cag
and they fly buck jijjhIh without
nny othT Inducement tlutn the love of
Hi"! i' hum". This trainer watched tho
birds carefully and made up his mind
that sparrows could he trained to do
the work of cnrrler plp'oiis, and that,
ns tliev were sunnier, iney couiu i!
more vnluable In case of war. 1 1
gave one of bis sparrows to n frlenu
who was going a dUiance of one hun
dred and fifty miles, and told him to
free the Mrd when lie h id reached tin;
end of hU Journey, and at the same
time to I'Megraph hi in when lie did so.
The bird reached lionn and went di
rect to Its cage, innklng the journey In
a little over an hour and a half.
A Curlou Discovery.
Atulepthof twenty-seven feet a
curious discovery was made recently,
a Berlin paper r,ays, on the Island of
(Jothland tho skeletons of several
knights In full armor seated on their
horses. Archaeologists think they date
back to the ninth century.
Yllen one woman prute another
the
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Where we had a good eiaDd, not wlDter til
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