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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24
a Growing Evil.

The public is alive to the evils of cigar
cite smoking. In Philadelphia. short
while ago, there was much unfavorable
the faculty of boys high school in thai
city, where 700 boys were being educated,
was an inveterate cigarette smoker. 1t was
very properly held that his example could
have no other than bad effect. In New
York, seventy-ive members of the cotton
exchange united the other day in condemn
ing the cigarette habit. In Nashville, some
time ago. paper was read before body
composed of the leading physicians of the
city, and its condemnation of the evil was
strongly Endorsed.
The evils of cigarette smoking are not
over-estimated. They can hardly be when
| it is remembered that young boys, upon
whom the future of the country depends,
are the greatest sufferers.
The injurious effects are felt upon the
| body and the mind, and frequently upon
| the morals. Hardly day passes that the
newspapers do not record the loss of mind
| or the death of some boy from excessive
indulgence in cigarettes.
There are several reasons why cigarette
smoking is more hurtful than smoking in
| any other form. More smoke is inhaled,
| and more nicotine is taken into the system /:
the smoker of cigarettes is more likely to
become an abject slave to tobacco; opium
is frequently mixed with the tobacco, and
arsenic is often used i'll the preparation of
| the paper covering.
Mere children, who would hardly be-
come addicted to the smoking of cigars.
may be seen, in this and other cities,
| smoking cigarettes. They don't pay
much attention to the quality of the TO-
bacco; in fact, generally they use the low
est grades,
Numerous calls are being made for legisla.
| ton against the cigarette evil A bill was in
| troduced in congress some months ago,
looking to its suppression in the District of
Columbia, and the best physicians in Wash
ington favored its passage.
One way to abate the evil is for parents
to keep themselves better informed con-
corning their children, and to correct
their evil habits. Negligence on their
part is little less than crime.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

If Senator Sherman should go into the
cabinet there would be hard fight for the
vacant senatorship, the contestants being
Gov. Foraker, ex-Gov. Foster, Congressman
Butterworth and Mckinley, and perhaps
Others. Ex-Speaker Keifer has announced
that he would not be candidate. II have
built up law practice since retiring from
politics." he says, shat no office could
tempt me to abandon" If Keifer is a sue
cess as a lawyer, he had better stick to the
law. He was good deal of a failure as a
statesman, and it would be national mis-
fortune If he were sent to the senate.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24
"Uncouraged.''

From the ArkdnsGW TrdUeter.
An old negro with his wife, eighteen dogs
and a wagon load of children, was met in the
road by a white man.
"Hullo. old man, which waYin
''Lookin' fur er good place ter settle, sah"
Where have you beep iPingl"
Down we're in Florida, but de times dun got
too hard down dar now"
"Why, l should tnink that the times were i'm
proving. as the yellow fever is about over"
Oats jes de reason, sab, de times got hard
Long ez de fever wuz dar aHiIfojks sont in hams
an bread an SIGH, tipesP WIZ good an it wuz
with while ter live dar, but. poY dat de fever is
over an et pussom haster hustle, WY it amt
no place fur er po' man, '--4 '7-
Where do you expect to gof"
wall, sab, rs lookin' out fur er place whar
de high waters er ragin', but Is mighty feerd
KANT find it dis time o. year"
How will high water help you?"
The negro gave the white man a look of pity
ing contempt. Look yere man. wharfo' you
ak SIGH foolish questions: Doan you know dat
when de high water RACES de guberment send,
vision and meat to de folksy L ciar ter good
ness | goes erround dis country er good dea
an sees mo- ignunce 'mung de white folks ever
year 1t do pear ter me like it wuz time da
wuz l'arnin' suthin, but da doan. Da jes keeI
on in dar own narrer an ignunt way. Il
mighty encouraged wild EN-"
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INDEX TO new ADVERTISEMENTS

ENTHUSIASTICALLY Lodge No. 0, l. o. o. F.
SPECIAL NOTICES Choice Fresh Killed Tur-
keys, L. Putzel; Notice, w. H. Connerat.
CHRISTMAS DAY AT TYBEE IsLAND-Two Trains
on Tybee Road.
LEGAL NoTIcE-Application for Incorporation
of the Savannah Electric Company.
STEAMSHIP SCHEDULES 49, Ocean Steamship
Company; General Transatlantic Company.
AUCTION SALEs-Plush, Bronze and Brass
Goods, Furniture ETC., by C. H. Dorsett.
LOTTERY DRAwING-Louisiana State
RAILROAD ScHEDULE-East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia Railroad.
CHAMPAGNE-Duc de Montehello Extra Dry,
P. H. Ward, Agent.
CHRAr COLUMN ADvERTIsEMENTs-HelpW Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Reward: Miscellaneous
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

Il WISH, said Rev. Mr.. G.'s little 4-year-old
that when I'm naughty you wouldn't always
TAX TO me In your heavenly father voicen'-
Exchange.
AT THE DooR--Is Col Gilderoy in!
BUTTERFLIES, sab,
Stranger-Just my blamed luck. heard he
had gone off on a four weeks visit. l only
called to say couldn't pay that $50 until week
after next.-St Paul Pioneer Press.
He trying to play a trump card 1
passed your house last evening l thought l
heard an angel sing.
She lstif1y II was at the theater last evening
Mrs. Mulhooly and her twins were at our house
visiting the cook.-Aelc York Weekly.
COOP MINIsrER-The fervor with which you
Joined in the hymn Il want TO be an angel de-
lighted me.
Little Dick-Yes sir, the teacher told me there
wasn't any preachin' an prayin' an catechism
lessons in heaven. Philadelphia Record.
Miss MAY-Did you see Shakspeare's tomb in
England?
-smith-Yes, and Ignatius Donnelly's too.
Miss May-Are they buried together?
Smith-No Shakespeare is buried at Avon
and Ignatius is buried in several book stores
Time.
MIsTREss-What on earth are you going to do
with that scuttleful of dirt, Nary
Mary-Dust the palmer
Mistress-Dust the piano?
Mary-Yis. Didn't We tell me to dust il m,
An it's takin livery bit o. dust l can foind.-
Buffalo Courier.
FIRST YOUNG LADY lat Broad street station
These young men are 50 rude. I've great
mind to complain of them.
Second Young Lady-We might go into that
big waiting room and sit down.
"Oh, it's SO stupid in there. It's reserved ex-
clusively for ladies' Philadelphia Record.
THEY are talking of names.
Il hate the name of Smith; don't you, Miss
Ethel?''
Indeed. do, Mr.. wallstreet. If it were
mine I'd cnange it,
what toy
/ got the ehance.'' this very demurely).
And then Mr.. Walstreet, remembering II was
leap year, blushed and told Miss Ethel she
would have to ask his mother.-Hdrper's BdzdT.
ALL RISKS AvouDED.--Mrs. De Paris in Paris
oh, my husband fear to have you leave me.
Must you really travel on one of those dreadful
railway trains? Think of the accidents that
have occurred
MIR De Paris "a noted French journalist
Fear not, my beautiful. The plan has been
changed: We are not to travel by rail.
THANK heavenes
to the dueling ground by carriage. Phtiadet-
phid Record.
=. She FoRGor NoTHING-Mrs. Anglomaniac ito
butler)-Matthew. his grace. the Duke OF
Tweededum, dimes and sleeps here toni hit.
want everything in the most correct English
way.
Matthew-Ho, yes, hindeed, mum.
Mrs. Anglomaniac-Serve tea in the drawing
room at and dinner at $50 O'Clock. Have no
napkins at breakfast tomorrow, and serve cold
game plates from the sdeboard
Matthew-Ho, yes hindeed. mum.
Mrs. Anglomaniac-And, Matthew, see that
the weather is foggy. want his grace to feel
Matthew -Ho, yes, hindeed, mum.-Nep York
Sun.
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1900 Not to be a Leap Year.


The following explanation is given why the
year 1900 will not be counted among the leap
years, The year is 3Gj days hours and %
minutes long, II minutes are taken every year
10 make the year 1854 days long, and every
fourth year we have an extra day. This was
Julius Caesars arrang sment. Where do these
eleven minutes come from Theycome from the
future, and are paid by emitting leap year every
100 years. But ii leap year is omitted regularly
every Tooth year. in the course of 400 years It Is
found that the eleven minutes taken each year
will not only have been paid back. but that a
whole day will have been given up. SO Pope
Gregory XIII. who improved on Caesars calsn-
dar In ljs2 decreed that every centurial year
dvsible by four should be a leap year after all
So We borrow eleven minutes each year more
than paying our borrowings back by emitting
three leap years in three centurial years. and
square matters by having a leap year in the
fourth CO 4turial year. Pope Gregory's arrange
ment Is so exact. and the borrowing and paying
back balance so closely, that we borrow more
than we pay back 10 extent OF only one day in
1896 years.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24
Protecting a Monopoly's Victims.

An investigating committee of the House
is trying to find out how much truth there
is in the charges that the employees of the
Alaska Fur Company are active in corrupt
ing the morals of the natives on the sea
islands,
Some rather startling stories are told Of
the immoraiities and outrages committed
by these men, and good deal of testimony
is being securei in support of them. The
natives are inoffensive, and easily influenced
with evil ways. A good many of the fur
company'S men, it is alleged, have no re-
spect for virtue and morality, and have re-
duced the harmless Aleuts to a most de-
plorable condition.
The purpose is to hold the Alaska Fur
COMPANY responsible for the acts of its en-
ployes, and If the charges are found to be
true the company will be in danger Of los
ing the monopoly which it enjoys. The
monopoly is a rather extraordinary one,
and is very valuable. The company pays
the government so much year for the ex-
elusive privilege of taking seals in Alaska
waters, and agrees not to kill more than
stipulated number each year.
OF couIse the company makes immense
profits. 1t has become so Nch and strong
that it acts as If it owned Alaska. The gov
eminent has agents at adj the principal
points where the seals are taken, and they
and the company's agents appear to be al
ways quarreling. 1t may be that the
charges against the company's employees
are greatly exaggerated by the government
agents, because of the ill-feelIng
between them. So many of those
who have had chance to see what the con-
dition of affairs on the Seal Islands is, how
ever, support the statements of the govern
ment officers, that it is not improbable that
the stories of immortality and outrage are
pretty well founded.
The Aleuts are, TO some extent, the wards
of the nation, and the government is bound
to give them such protection as it can, es-
pecially against a company which exists
only by IT'S permission. 1t is better that the
Alaskan Company's contract should be an
nulled than that the ignorant and harmless
Aleuts should be debauched and their re-
gard for morality and virtue destroyed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24
A Northern Mans Impressions.

Mr. Henry f. Bowen, of New York, who
recently visited different portions of the
south, has made public some of the impress
sions he formed He was surprised at the
very great material progress made in this
section within the last five years. The
building mining, and manufacturing inter-
ests, he says, have been rapidly advanced,
and immigration bureaus have succeeded in
securing very many desire BILE settlers The
progress since he was here year ago, he
says, is very noticeable, and it was shown
in no other way more clearly than by the
expositions which have been held lately in
Richmond, Columbus, Dallas, and San An
tonic, and the one which has inst closed
in Augusta.
With regard to politics, Mr.. Bowen
thinks the southern democrats feel very
sore over Mr.. Cleveland's defeat, and that
they are disposed to grumble at New
York's treachery. He thinks that in the
future New York's influence in democratic
councils will not be nearly so great as 1t has
been, and that if Gov. Hill should
be nominated for President four
years hence he would not receive more
han one southern democratic vote
out Of ten. The southern people, however,
he says, regard Gen. Harrison as fair
minded man. and about all they will ask of
him is that he will treat the south as well
as he does other sections of the country,
and that he will appoint the better classes of
republicans to Office. He seems incliEed TO
think that a new and strong Republican
party could be built up in the south. Con-
corning the Mills bill, he says he was told
in Texas that the democrats of that state
supported it, or tolerated it, because they
did not think it would become law.
What Mr.. Bowen says about the material
south is on the lips of every observant per-
son who visits this section, or who knows
anything about it, but the facts that he has
made frequent visits here, and that he was
particularly impressed vita the last YEARS
progress indicate that the growth of the
last ten years has placed the south in posi-
tion to advance yet more rapidly, and that
she has made a fresh start. His impressions
of the political situation are probably in
correct in several instances, but they are
given in sincere and pleasant manner,
and show that he feels an interest in the
southern people
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

One of the latest rumors connected with
the next cabinet is that ex-President Hayes
will be offered portfolio. The friendship
existing between Mr.. Hayes and Gen. Har-
rison is said TO be of long standing, aud
when Hayes was making his cabinet in 1877
he is reported to have been DESTROYS Of ap-
pointing Gen. Harrison Secretary Of War
or Secretary of the Navy. The Indiana
republicans could not fix upon preference
between several men, however, and finally
ex-senator Oliver =. Morton recommended
Mr.. Richard Thompson, who was appointed.
Now, according to gossip, Gen. Harrison
wants to show his appreciation Of the
esteem in which he was held by making Mr..
Hayes one of his cabinet members. II he
should, what would become OF Senator
Sherman's aspirations, and how many dis
appointed aspirants for the Ohio senator
ship would there bei
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

Somebody is trying TO bring about a
muddled state of affairs with regard to the
law providing for executions by electricity
in New York. The other day Judge Mar
tine sentenced Henry Carlton to be hanged
on Feb IS next, but Cartons counsel raised
the point that the new law abolished hang
ings from the date it was passed, and that
as no criminal could be executed by cleo
tricity unless sentence was passed on him
after Jan. /, Carlton could not be executed
by either method The judge said the
question was too important for him 10 de
eide at that time, and suggested that the
court Of appeals was the proper body 70 de-
eide 1t.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

1t is quite apparent TO the ordinary OBJ
server that the law against selling liquor on
Sunday is not enforced in this city. Dur
ing short walk yesterday afternoon a
representative of the MORNING NEWS saw
dozen negroes and three white men more
or less under the influence of liquor. The
negroes were seen south of Anderson street
and the white men in the vicinity of the
parks. There should be vigorous effort
made by the solicitor general to arrest aud
convict the men who are continually violat-
ing the Sunday liquor law. The violation
of this law is fruitful source of crime, and
those who are guilty of violating it should
be ferreted out and punished. Why is it
that they escape punishment 2 What is the
use Of having law that is not respected
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

The Philadelphia Press makes this fling
at our legislators: "The Georgia Legislators
receive tea cents mileage each way to and
from the state capital. 1t would seem as if
the state of Georgia would do herself more
lasting good by paying her legislators
twenty cents mileage on the way home
Let the Georgia legislators alone, won't
youl They have been doing pretty good
work, and Georgia doesn't find much fault
with them.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

Congressman w. d. Kelley, of Pennsyl-
vania, writing to MIR. +. o. Wicker, of
Sandersville, Ga, predicts that the progress
of the south in wealth, intelligence and
development will be immeasuraDly greater
during the four years from March next.
under republican administration, than it
has been under Mr.. Cleveland's administra-
ton. Mr. Kelley may be right. The south
made greater progress under MIR. Cleve-
lands administration than it did under Gen.
Arthurs, and 1t may make still greater
under Gen. Harrison's, but If it does, the
Republican party won't deserve the
credit for It, The south has gotten into the
habit of improving each year upon the last
years record, and she won't allow a repub-
hcan administration TO prevent her from
continuing the habit. IL is TOO good TO
abandon.
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8TEEN 8TY 8.
An Anxious Maiden's Twilight Reverie
on the Last Chance of Leap Year.

An ANXIOUS Maiden TWlllRnt HeVerlt
on the Last Chance of Leap Year.
From the Boston Budget.
draw my chair beside the grS
And dreamiy medts
Upon my present single stSi
wonder il relentless F6
Ordains for me loving ms
Such dreams have haunted me of late.
This year, which would celebrS,
Is leap year. but its precious frs
OF lawful days to fascinS.
Decreases at rapid re-,
Oh, happy youths, who need not VIZ
And try to be tempting bS
To catch the fish that pass your g.
You need not condescend to prs
That you would not reciproc8
Should loving hopes our hearts inflS,
And cause us to appreciS
One fltful privilege of dS.
We really do not contemplS
Confessing what it's woman's trS
To keep nor ever desecr6
For this no man could compenSS;
But do not joke and aggravS
Our feelings in this tender strs,
If you our chance would extirps,
Just speak the opposite of hS
And you We six chances out of 8.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24
westerners in the South.

From the Neto Orleans Picdyisne (Dem.)
They are coming-they are here-more and
more every year, and they make the best demo-
Gratis IN the world. sTbey will continue to come.
II for no other reason tnan that investments in
the south go further and yield better returns
than IN the north, the east or the west
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

Mr. Joseph Manley is represented as say
ing that Mr.. Blaine would accept no Office
except that of Secretary of State Mr..
Manley is supposed to speak by the card,
and if Gen. Harrison is thinking of making
Gen. Sherman premier, he will probably
ponder very seriously before he leaves
Brother Blaine out in the cold
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24
Two Peculiarities Of Am erica's Richest
Man

II is said that when Jay Gould is going up or
down the stairs OF the Il" road he always puts
his left foot on the step first, even II he has 10
get out OF step 10 do IL. II. by accident. or
through thoughtlessness. he happens 20 start
with the right foot. he IL certain ~ remark IL
before aching the top Of the steps, and. II be
does, will return and start over again Another
reported peculiarly Of Mr. Gould n his anLipa-
thy 70 fair haired men. There II not single
blonde clerk 10 his immediate employ. and II IN
said that he disllkes 10 do business with men
who have far hair.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24
Did That Sattle It2

From the st. Louis +, public tDem.)
The character of the Harrison administration
Is fixed. The grandfather who weakly allows
his grandson TO run the risk of injuring himself
with tack, because the grandson cries when it
is taken away from him. will never be able to
resist the demand Of the rascals to be put back
into office
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

Under the heading, "Why New Mexico
Should Not Be Admitted" the Chicago
:ShrisIcer gives several alleged reasons for
keeping that territory out, but it doesn't
give its main reason. The Shrieker may
as well be honest ami admit that it is be-
cause New Mexico would be democratic
state
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

Rev. Sam Small declared in Cincinnati
the other day that the prohibitionists were
bound to elect candidate for President,
but he declined to set date for that event.
Mr.. Small seems to be becoming more eau
tious in his public statements.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24
Bad for Harrison.

From the Neso York World (Dem.)
The worst thing that has been said of Gen.
Harrison since the election is Senator Quay's
remark Il can get along with him all right. =
The sort OF President that Matt Quay can get
along with all right" is hardly one to invite the
confidence of the people
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

The fellow who started the sensational
story at indianapolis of a plot to assassi-
nate Gen. Harrison ought to be drummed
out of that city.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

Senator ingalls, successor will he elected
in about year, and it is stated that ex-
Gov. Osborne and Mr.. J. A. Hudson will be
candidates against him. The country
would not lose much IL Ingalls should be
permitted 10 remain at home, but the coun-
try hasn't had very good run Of luck,
politically, lately.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

Gen. Golf, of West Virginia, declares
that he will be inaugurated governor of
that state. Still the governorship isn't
settled
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

Chairman Quay is said to have ignored
ex-President Hayes presence on the train
with him the other day. Perhaps Quay's
eyesight was affected temporarily by a
headache.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24
CURRENT COMMENT.
First Catch Your Republican.

From lie Chicago Neics (Ind)
Those people who want southern republi-
can TO have place in the next cabinet should
hare