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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16
Mr.. Ian dreth's Suggestion.

Burnett Landreth, the we'll known nur-
seryman Of Bristol, Pa, makes the most
sensible suggestion with respect to the
growing of ramie and jute in this country
that has yet been made. He recognizes
the fact that both ramie and jute can be
successfully grown in the south, and also
that it is folly to urge farmers to cultivate
either one of these fiber plants until means
have been discovered for preparing the fiber
for market. Lately there were exper-
iments at his farm with a decorticating
machine, and they do not appear to have
been wholly satisfactory. There are ma
chimes that will strip the bark from the
stalk, but they do not do it rapidly enough
to permit either jute or ramie to be grown
with profit.
1t is waste of time and money to cult
vate either jute or ramie until successful
decorticating machine has been invented,
and chemical processes have been discovered
for taking the gum from, and for bleach
ing, the fiber. MIR. Landreth's suggestion
is that the agricultural department of each
state shall use its influence to have congress
appropriate 100000 for premiums for the
best decorticating machines and for
chemical processes, the premiums to be Of
fered through the department of agriculture,
and the experiments to determine who is en-
titled to the premiums to be conducted under
its supervision. He points out that ramie
and jute would be much more profitable
crops than sorghum if there were means
for preparing their fiber for market. Con-
gress has appropriated many thousands of
dollars for experiments with sorghum, with
the view of making it a profitable crop,
and why should not the same policy be pur-
sued with regard TO jute?
There is one feature of Mr. Landreth's sug-
gestion, however, that is not satisfactory.
1t is that in the competition for the prizes
the minimum production of the decorti-
eating machines shall be 100 pounds of
green bark and IS pounds of dry bark per
hour. 1t would be interesting to know of
what use decorticator producing only
these amounts of bark would be. There
are decorticators now, probably. which
have that capacity, and perhaps Mr.. Lam
dreth's decorticator is one of them. A
decorticator must be invented that has a
much greater capacity than that before
ramie or jute can be grown profitably.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

MEErNGs-The National Bank of Savannah.
SPECIAL NoTIcEs-William R. Leaken. At
torney at Law Removal, W E. Guerard, Agent
Merchants and Miners Transportation Com
pany; AS to Bills Against British Steamship
Truro City and British Brig Emma L. Shaw
Special Prices Saturdays at Heidt's; Butler s
Bronchial Troches, at Buffers Pharmacy; Sub
scribers' Tickets to the Symphony Concerts !;
New York Oyster and Chop House, T. H. En-
right, Proprietor.
IMPoRTAET-A. Falk & Sons
STEAMSHIP ScHEDULE-Ocean Steamship Com
psny.
PUBLICATIONS. The Youths Companion.
RAILROAD Standardization and Savan-
nah Railway.
HELLO YOURSELF, COLD WEATHER IS COMING
Appel & Schaul-
NEW SOUTH STovE-Cornwell & Chapman,
CHEAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENTS - Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted For Rent; For
Sale: Personal: Lost; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

Representative Calvin of Augusta, Who
was in Savannah this week, enjoys the dis
tinction of being the first acting presiding
officer Of the house after that body went
into the new capitol. At the time Speaker
Clay was quite ill, and had been for several
weeks. Mr.. Calvin presided month or
more, and he made an excellent presiding
officer He was so successful, i'll fact, that
DIR. FELTON,, who has served in congress, was
moved to pay him high complime IT. Mr.
Calvin has represented Richmond county in
the House eight consecutive years, and he
has done his best work in the committee
room, where a man shows the order of his
ability. 1t is said that his friends are go
ing to push him for speaker if he is returned
to the next House.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

The late John Crerar, of Chicago, seems
to have been very sensible man. The
purpose he had to establish splendid pub
lie library in that city was commendable
one, and the directions he gave for the ex.
clusion Of flash literature and 'skeptical
trash" were greatly to his credit. He
wanted to encourage healthy literary
taste. 1t may turn out, however, that he
made very great mistake in not establish
ing and endowing the library before ht
died. as dissatisfied relatives may try tx
break his will
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To an Old Fan Slipper.
Eronl Hanftu FAIR.


Q, little shoe, so worn and frayed.
With heel forlorn and bow decayed,
How changed since granny first displayed
Your pristine glory,
You poor bedraggled No. 9,
You are alive at least to me:
Whilst lying there seem to see
Your simple story.
Bedight in raiment white and pure
Your mistress tripped, Of conquest sure;
For damsels who look most demure
Are not uncanny.
P'raps grandpa came in garments smart
Vast triumphs Of sartorial art
With valorous words. yet trembling heart
10 WOO our granny.
Those were the days when wife and maid
Ingenious towers of hair displayed
When single lorgnettes strove " aid
Defective vision;
When beaux wore kerchiefs girt with straps.
Ingenious coats with many flaps
And Walstcoats which would now, perhaps
Excite derision.
Waists low, waists high. coats black or green
Things now are as they've always been
since nrst our own most gracious queen
The throne assembled
around thee lies full many token
mat shows the specious word was spoken,
ana hearts irreparably broken
That quickly mended.
Partners, perchance. were much the same
Some bright, some dull some fast. some tame;
Some who to spurious wit laid claim,
Nor saw their error:
The men whose charms were scarcely mental,
Inc youth both shy and ,ntimental,
The fascinating detrimental"
Great-grandma's terror
And did the chaperons then as now,
Ecstatic happiness avow
Whilst watching with an aching brow
The fitting dancers:
ana Qld they, gr1pped in Fashions vice.
Receive girl with looks of ice
Ii she sat out with some one nice
Convenient lancers?.
But, tiny friend now must flee
set of tennis waits for me-
For, rapt in pleasant reverie,
The moments fly by:
The hour has come to say adieu
make my courtesy to you;
Now, dear, pathetic little SHOE
Go back to ''bye-bye"
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1t will be observed that the Presidents
motive in appointing w. W. Russell and
Virgil Clayton postmasters at Anderson and
Columbia, S. c., respectively, was to help
the Republican party in that state. Whether
or not Russell and Clayton are competent
to perform the duties of postmasters at
those places does not seem to have been
taken into Consideration. The Presiden
should not forget that when he was inau-
gurated he promised to place the interests
of the people before those of party in
making appointments.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

Mr.. William H. Guion, of New York, the
head of the Guion Steamship Company,
says that for some time he has felt as if it
was sort of condescension on his part to
shake hands with other people. Mr.. Guion
has no false notions of social lie, and he
doesn't think he is better than anybody
else, but the fact is that he once shook
hands with Grover Cleveland, and what
was said on that occasion still brings to his
cheeks glow of PRIDE He said to Mr..
Cleveland: 81 have heard of you, Mr..
President. for over four years, but have
never before had the honor of meeting
you" Mr.. Cleveland's answer both sur
prised and delighted him. 1t was this:
''Ahl Mr.. Guion, l have known of you for
more than twenty years."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

The Northeast Georgia fair at Athens this
week has been highly successful in every
particular, just as all previous ones at
Athens were. Athens is situated in one of
the best sections of the state. Clarke
county is one of the most progressive
counties in Georgia, and the adjacent terri
tory contains thrifty population. The
Northeast Georgia fairs havs not been as
comprehensive as some others in the state,
but they have always been excellent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

A few days ago some New York repub-
licans Of prominence were reported to have
said that the republicans in congress could
not afford to vote for holding the worlds
fair of 1892 in New York, because to hold it
there would be to help the Democratic
party. They neglected to state just why it
woald help that party, but the Chicago
Inter Ocean attempts to supply the omis-
sion. 1t says that if the fair is held in New
York, Tammany will get the visitors to
vete the democratic ticket in that city.
The Inter Ocean is entitled to the leather
ruedal. Seriously, the effort to bring poll
tics into the worlds fair question should be
discouraged.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

pKentucky's giant, Capt. Bates, who was
at one time exhibited by Barnum, was mar
ried the other day to Miss Weatherby OF
Ohio. Capt. Bates is seven feet eight inches
high, and weighs 400 pounds, and he is
said to be christian and a scholar. He
owns several very fine farms in Kentucky.
This is his second marriage, his first wife
having been giantess. Miss Weatherby
is five feet seven inches high. and weighs
100 pounds She is said to bs quite pretty,
and to be a vocalist of superior ability.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16
Higginbottom's Loss.
From the st. Louis Republic.

"Look here, Mr.. Higginbottom," said the
grocer, by way of a joke to the old farmer. 81
found this stone. which weighs five pounds. in
the bottom of the last crock of butter bought
of you"
fault" rejoined the man, as he turned to his
wife.
faint neither You handled the crockslr
But you must hev mixed 'em up down
cellarr'
''No, didn't though the gal probably did.
She's just that keerless."
We'll, Smith, I'll allow for it. The crooks
got mixed. This was the one we were goin' to
send the preachers donation party, and I've bin
hornswo Sgled out of clean dollar orter hev
put label on it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

Senator Gibbs, of the 2Sth Georgia dis
trict, was one of Savannah's visitors tn is
week. Senator Gibbs succeeded in arousing
the ire of the republican press by his course
in the legislature, bit he doesn't appear to
have become respondent on that account.
He was as merry as a cricket while in this
city, and he went home perfectly satisfied
with his course as a legislator. He says
that some one in the north wrote to him
that the northern press was criticizing him
quite extensively, and offered to send him
al OF the criticisms, at so much clipping.
senator Gibbs declined the offer. He
clans regard the northern press as bein Z
among his constituents.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

The Scotch-Irish Association, which was
organized at Columbia, Tenn, last May,
will hold its first annual convention in
Pittsburg, Pa, but all subsequent ones will
be held at a fixed point, to be named by the
executive committee. Chicago and Nash
vile seem to be the most favorably mea-
toned places, and the Nashville American
is urging the people of that city to make a
special effort to get the conventions. The
people Of Nashville should take the Ameri-
CAMS advice.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

Judge Cooley, of the interstate commerce
commission, is improving in health. The
report that he was threatened with paresis
is denied, but it is admitted that he cannot
safely do as much work as formerly
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

Vice-President Morton probably doesn t
object TO having newspaper reporters and
other people go to his saloon in Washington
to see if he really retails whisky to others
than the guests of the Shoreham. He sells
the whisky, and the reporters are helping
to swell the receipts.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

There are several women in Chicago who
are in the sandbagging business, and the
other day two of them were arrested, and
evidence was obtained against them which
will probably cause their conviction.
George S. Young, of Harvard, ILL.,, was
walking down one OF the streets, when the
women came up behind him, knocked him
down with sandbag, and robbed him of
$50 and gold ring. The women are we'll
known characters in Chicago, and have
been arrested frequently before, but here
tofore the evidence against them was not
strong.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16
Politics in the W. G. 7. o.

From the st. Louis Republic (Den.).
II was indeed an evil day for the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union when Col. J. Ellen
Foster shifted after the flesh pots of Egypt and
got office for her husband. How can the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union soar
heavenward when it has male men depending
on its members and clogging its upward flight:
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This viii Make wanamaker Mad.

From the Net0 York World (Denl).
Senator Hampton seems to think that man
holding high position in the government
should be obliged to conform TO the vulgar Gus
toms against which Ananias and Sapphira
sinned. This is unworthy Of Hampton. Can
macy, those dainty achievements of states
manship which lift such man as Wanamaker
above the obligations that are binding on lesser
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

Our dispatches announced yesterday that
the wife of the late Col. Goodloe, of Ken
lucky. would probably be appointed to the
Office made vacant by the death of her hus-
band. Senator Quay and Col. Clarkson
are pushing Mrs. Goodloe's claims, and it
may be mentioned in this connection that
SO is Col. Dudley, who was an intimate
friend of Col Goodloe. Quay, Clarkson
and Dudley presumably have great inau =
ence with the President. They helped to
elect him by methods that to say the least
were not very creditable
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a Surprised Contemporary.

49, --''seftStC't o-NE N-N'fN'S.
Judge Tourgee, in a letter the negro
question, says it is something which will never
be settled till the Christian conscience Of the
country is restored to its normal condition. "
Ihls IS about the first time we have ever heard
OF Tourgee giving any intimation Of a belief in
the existence of sucn thing as a conscience.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Grave Oversight.

From The Washington Post CRep.l
It is somewhat strange that the pan-American
tourists, during their visit to Philadelphia,
not invited to see that most notable of Phila-
delphia productions, the Kelly motor.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

The report Of the officers of tie elevated
railroads of New York city shows that
during the last year 100000 passengers
were carried over the roads.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

President Harrison was burned In effigv
by some republicans of Jacksonville, Ind,
the other night. Jacksonville is probably
named for Thomas jefferson, the father Of
democracy, and it may be that the republi-
cans there are beginning to see the errors OF
their party.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

To stimulate the appetite and secure good
digestion, use Angostura Bitters. Sole
manufacturers Dr. j. G. B. Siegert & Sons.
Ask your druggists.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

The eldest daughter of Robert G. Inger-
soil was married the other day to Mr.. W.
H. Brown Of New York. The ceremony
was not performed by minister Of the
gospel, but by judicial officer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16

Get rid of that tired feeling as quick as
possible. Take Hoods Sarsaparilla, which
gives strength, good appetite and health.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16
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Horsford's Acid Phosphate
Relieves mental and physical exhaustion.
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themselves, however, small quantities of a
glutinous rice they call mai, or "old man
rice, " which they use for making a kind of
pudding at one of their festivals Rice in com
mon with oats, wheat, peas and beans, contains
about IA per cent of water, but it also has 70
per cent. OF starch, which causes it to rank
highest as fat producing food
YALE STUDENTS are to present frog opera. :"
The cast will require seventy-f1ve people. The
music was written by Burton E. Leavitt a Yale
freshman The incident to be COMMUNICATED
is historic. Windham county historians agree
that the frog scare took place one sultry night
in June, 1854. The Windhamites were awakened
by the most unearthly noises, and some of them
leaped to the conclusion that the crack of do ON
had been sounded flOthers came to the natural
but almost equal, dreadful, conclusion that an
army of French and Indians was marching
upon the village. All night long the people
trembled in terror The booming tumult
seemed to come from the pond on the Scot
land road, which has ever since borne the
name of Frog. Pond Among the noises
the people distinctly heard uttered the
name of the welknown tory lawyer who was
prominently connected with the Susquehanna
purchase. in this fashion; "We'l have Col
Dyer! Well have Col Dyer" "Elderkin' too! |
Eiderkin too"" rang out steadily in a sharp
tenor response. Col Elderkin was another
lawyer. The people were terrified Families
living near said that the distress of the frogs
during the night was given vent 10 with such
force that they felt their beds quake beneath
them The frogs were seen by lantern light to
be in great trouble. In the morning many
were no marks of violence upon them, and
nothing to indicate that they had been fighting.
1t is supposed that the frogs were attacked by
some deadly malady
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NO. o4

ing the choir sang missionary hymn. and one verge said, The heathen in his bIfpd- ness bows down to wooden stone.'n "Mv son." said MT. Holiday kindly, "don't try to formulate your creed from what you think the choir seems to say, or you will get the able and incomprehensible tangle that 'Par- acelsus' will read like 8 ohild's history of Anyplace in words of one syllable. Brook lyn Eagle.
 Edna had little playmate, fat, chubby little fellow named Moses. One day she left her plsythings and went to her mothers room, but soon returned with her white dress partly on and the sash that was pinned to it dragging on the floor.
 "Why, Edna," exclaimed her mother, "what mischief are you into nowa"
 "Oh. muffin, mamma, only Moses tome to see me and fought I'd dress up."
 "No; didn't come to see you, neither" said little Moses, drawing his sleeve across his nose.
 "Well, don't tare. I looks pity all de same" i" said little Edna as she firted out of the room.
 The Boy and the Rat.-A boy who had caught Rat in a Trap was about to Dispatch 1t by Drowning when the Rodent began Be- wailing his sad Fate and patheticslly inquir- ed: "Have ever Injured you that you seek my Lfea' a'Never," was the reply. "Would you be the Loser by restoring me to Libertys" s'Not at all." sfThen why not turn me looseg You seem to Feel for me-" fThat's exactly the trouble" replied the boy. "Father has been scattering Poison all over the cellar, and I'm afraid you will get some of it and Die 6 Lingering death. I'm doing the Mercy Act by Drowning you." Moral-When citizen who s.hasn't done nothing st all" is run in by the Police it saves him from committing Bur glary or Murder. ."-Detroit Free Press.