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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13

An ola man from somewhere beyond me
suburbs stool yesterday on Forty seventh
street corner watohing q trolley car moving
swiftly eastward with q heavy load ~
passengers saye the Philadelphia Inquirer
mat one ~ these iectrlc cars. amt 10
hc said turning 90 O. bored looking man who
was leaning against a telegruph pole
I don see how lectrioity can make a car
Gun % people mp along over the ground Ike
that
You dontgr exclaimed the other. hecon-
ing interested. Why. it's easy enough 70
see through when you once understand f."
I Npect SO but I've never heard enough
about 10 90 understand it,
10 is al matter OF watts. watt don
You see. is fraction Of q horsepower, eX-
pressed ln the technical language OF electrical
engineering. You know what an ampere is
don yOut'
"A WHAT"
An ampere. II Is a quantity Of electricity
that goes through the wire and develops the
watt The electricity comes from the central
dynamo through that wire you see running
along overhead runs down through that iron
pole and goes TO the motor which is an in
QenlOus hut perfectly simple arrangement Of
wire coils with revolving frame acted upon
by the current which sets il to spinning, and
thus puts in motion a small cOg-wheel that
engages another wheel that Communi-
Gates the rotary movement TO a third cog
wheel fastened to the axle OF the car. It's as
plain as day when you get the idea"
Yes but how
Don YOU understand it yet2 There's n
sort OF wire brush that presses against cop
per plate connected with the motor and the
wire is wound on the frame / was telling you
about, so that when the current enters the
motor II can 20 either way. and part OF il
goes one way and part the other, so that the
pressure is applied in opposite directions. and
thats what makes the jigger revolve and sets
the wheels in motion. The current goes back
through an underground wire. See through
il now"
Yves 1 think kind o. get the idee"
The afaDle stranger strolled down the
street and the old man took another look at
the overhead wire. gazed earnestly in the di-
rection in which the car hadgone, took off his
hat ana wiped his forehead
What I'd like to know he muttered, lis
90
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
A Slight Mistake.

A little incident that happened not long
since in Harmanus Blocker hall caused a
deal of smiling among those in the immediate
vicinity, says the Albany IN. W Argus A
deaf old gentleman well known and much re-
spected in all circles of the city, and young
lady were the actors. The two were engaged
in sort OF conversation. The young lady
would say things two or three times to the
old gentleman, who would at last hear and
answer. One time the young lady, while they
were talking about fruit and their likes and
dtslikes, saidtothe old gentman in an ordinary
tone; DO you like bananas?' The old gen
tleman didn't catch it, so he smiled and said {:
"What?" The young lady repeated her ques-
tton in a slightly louder tone, but still the old
gentleman didn't understand. The young
lady then bent over close to the ear of the
old gentleman and said in tone that could
have been heard four rows away: DO you like
bananas The old gentleman seemed to IN
derstand and yet was surprised. He in turn
bent over toward the young lady and said to
her in quite loud tone; mo, like the old
fashioned night-shirt best" A quiet tifter
went around among those in the immediate
vicinity. The young lady blushed furiously
at the idea that she had been understood
as asking the old gentlemen how
he liked the new tangled pajamas
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
BRIGHT BITS.

He-JerusaIeml What made you offer
prizesY They'll cost fortune.
She-Pshaw, we won't have to get any
they were to be given to the women who
didn't ask what's trumps Chicago Inter
Ocean.
His Honor-'Have you anything TO say be-
fore sentence is passed upon your The con
victed-"Yes, your Honor, have one simple
request to make IN sentencing me please
don't say that was convicted by jury OF my
peers. Life.
Jasper-Big head is q strange man for a
philosopher.
Jumpuppe-
Jasper-Yes. He said that all men are
merely animals and yet got angry when I
called him an ass.-Buffalo Express
Flushing are you looking so glum
about?
De Fissett-I'm broke.
Flushing-Oh, well never mind; such con
tingency is likely to occur at any time
De Ftssett-It doesn't occur with me; il eX-
ists.-Indlanapolis News.
My dear, it must be a great consolation to
you at this time that you have your children
happy and we'll.
The Widow-It is indeed comfort and
then have one of the best women in the
kitchen now that I've had since l was mar
ried.-DetrOit Free Press
Col Wellington de Boots-It is almost i'm
possible for you, Miss Sprytely, to imagine
what huge amount of work have to do, for
an uOt only thc CoHuldnuer OF Tue regl-
ment. but also its major, adjutant, and heaven
knows what ..t.
Miss spytely-Your own trumpeter, too,
colonelf-Jndge.
When l marry I shall try to be sure of one
thing and that is that l have a woman of
sense"
You mean woman Of prudence and fore
thought, with fine perception and a knowl-
edge of human naturet'
Yes. that it exactly"
But they are just the ones that never
marry. Funny Folks.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13


Tho worlds fir managers and rho
Chicago newspapers age purzi.nr their
brains over s1uae una thelnatioal problems
that while they seem simple. arc dcoi.
leilr abstruse For instance. one day
r-vutly the railroads and steamboats,
reported that they had taken o. and
brought away from the fair grounds
1.G-5UU fares. that IS % say. 5l2M1 per
SONS We. out 81 she Er0uHasaHd returned
AGAIN 20 the city during the day. They
went for the purpose of visiting the fair
of course: there was nothing else to at
tract Them. hence the fair managers,
quite reasonably. calculated that the ad-
missions for the day would approx
innate half the number OF fares taken
by the transportation lines.
But in that calculation, they We're mis-
taken Returns from the tunstiles
showed that only about $4,000 admis-
sious, paid and deadhead. had been taken
that day One hundred and seventy-five
thousand five hundred persons brought
out by the trains and boats were unac-
counted for What became of all of these
people, The side-shows took up % 900. ac-
cording to the allowance made by delivers
into the problem; but what went with
the l5O,5O0' Did they crawl under the
TENT" Did they go up in balloons7 OR,
did they 60 through the turnstiles, like
their fellows. and We're the turnstiles
''doctered" by their keepers before the
returns We're made2
The Chicago journal suspects that
there is the biggest kind of a leak some
where between the ticket office and the
fairs cash box Beyond a reasona BILE
doubt" it says, cover 100000 persons
went to the worlds fair on July 4
over and above the number accounted
for by the bureau of admissions" The
leakage" the Journal estimates,
amounts to about $4,000 a day, and
blames the penny wise and pound foolish
policy of the directory for the state of af-
fairs. The turnstiles," it says, for
which 500 apiece was paid, instead of be-
ing a check on the gate-keepers, are de-
fusion and sham. They obstruct and
revolve at the viii of the gate-keepers,
but they do not register. If the directors
would stop cheese-paring and keep tab on
the gate receipts they would realize dol
lars where they are hurting the fair to
save dimes"
Still, it is hardly reasonable to suppose
that the fair managers, a shrewd lot of
business men with much of their own
money at stake, would be blind TO such an
enormous leakage" or neglect to stop
it if they learned of its existence, 1t is
more reasonable to suppose that there is
a hitch in the figures somewhere than
that there is wholesale fraud going on.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
An Old Foey.

S. w. FosS, in Yankee Blade.
l sit upon my OK team, calm,
Beneath the lazy sky,
And crawl cOntented through the land
And let the world go by.
The thoughtful OK has learned to wait
And nervous impulse smother,
And ponder long before he puts
One foot before the other.
And men with spanking teams pass by
And dash upon their way,
AS if il were their hope to find
The worlds end in day.
And men dash by in palace cars,
on me dark frowns they cast,
AS the lightning driven Present frowns
Upon the slow old Past
What do they chase, these men of steam,
Their SmOke-tiagS white unfurled,
Pulled by the roaring fire-dend
That shakes the reeling world?
What do you seek, We men of steam,
SO wild and mad you press?
Is this is this the railroad line
That leads to happiness?
And when you've swept across the day
And dashed across the night.
is there some station through the hills
Where men can find delight
All, toward the Depot of Content,
Where no red signals stream,
l go by OK team just as quick
AS you can 20 by steam.
Il never saw man so happy as Dicky Bi
lings is over the loss OF his wife's fortune"
Happy"
Yes Dicky says he is now able to l<icl
about things at hOme.-Brooklyn Life.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
Soldiers ana Gentlemen.
From the Wasbfngton Posi- and

The action OF the Francis s Barlow Camp
OF United Confederate Veterans. OF Polk
county, Fla, IN adopting resolutions compli
mentary TO Mrs Grant was inspired by the
recent pleasant iuterchanges of courtesy be
tween Mrs. Grant and Mrs Davis 1t is true
there was nothing very remarkable in the
meeting OF these two ladies', or that they treat
ed each other as two ladies should do. but
there Is some significance after all in the eff
feet il Is evidently having upon the southern
mind and there IS no reason to question the
GOod faith of the Florida veterans in extend
ing TO Mrs. Grant the greatful appreciation
which every honorable Confederate soldier
feels for the sympathetic magnanimity OF her
that the war is over when the women of The
two sections can shake hands Of reconcilia-
tlon across the line that once so sharply sepa-
pated them,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
CIarkson Just Like the Rest of Them.
From the New York Times Dem1

!. :. GARRISON has published in the san
Francisco Examiner letter about silver leg
islatiOn ana other kindred topics, in the
course of which he makes some characters
tically silly remarks about the western
man, and the eastern man" Eastern men,
he says, are provincial. 1t is the western
man who is the broad national fellow. The
east does not understand the west II does
not hear in mind that two-thirds of the silver
of the world is produced on this continent
ana nearly all of this west of the Mississippi -
Ii the east does not bear this in mind it
should have some credit for its failure to do
so for the assertion is not true. In his head
long desire to be regarded as broad nation
al fellow Mr.. Clarkson contemptuOusly ig-
nores facts with which that kind of a fellow
ought 20 be familiar before he undertakes to
discuss The silver question.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
The Objection to Silver.
From the Philadelphia Record Deu

Not one person in a hundred of those who
object 90 the coinage of ShOrt-weight silver
dollars would offer any serious opposition to
silver dollars of equal intrinsic value with
gold dollars. The popular objection does not
lie against the use of silver as money but
against the fraud involved in its over-valua-
tion. 1t is true that a coin Of nearly double the
weight Of the present silver dollar could not
lie forced into general circulation. It's IN
weidiness would condemn it. But no argu-
ment would be quite so convincing in estab-
fishing the unhtness of silver for money
metal, except for subsidiary coin of limited
legal tender quality. as a determined effort to
force upon the people an honest, full.weight
silver dollar.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
CONSERVATISM and modesty.' y

IOW NC 7UUIH 1t0IgId o6HIIu5I-
The SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS has passed
a quarter Of a century under the ownership
and control Of Col J. H. EstiIl Col. Estill
has risen steadily from the ranks of the typo
to position of great prominence and in
ftuence in journalism, He has made success
Of the MORNING NEWS by pursuing a policy
of conservatism and modesty rarely seen
among newspaper men. He is one Of Georgia 3
bestcitizens and deserves all the emoluments
which his paper brings him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
Cheap Silver a Dear Bargain.
Ernm the Chicaetn Herald dem

1t is said that the government probably will
not have to issue over S., 500 coo OF new legal
tender notes for the next months purchase
of 100000 ounces" OF silver. This is quite
likely. And the next monthly purchase after
that can be made for - 100000. This gro
teSQue form OF consolation FOR our national ca
lamity does not consider that for every de-
crease in the purchase price of a few tons Of
silver the value OF the silver we have on hand
gees down in proportion. Saving $4,000 on
a single month purchase. we lose IS, 100000
in the market value of the total amount which
we have on hand. And so it keeps going on,
from bad to worse.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13

Lord Salisbury plays upon a broken
string when he attempts to frighten Eng
land out of granting home rule to Ireland
by declaring that, in case of Ireland s
success, India would demand her freedom
and further, that in the event of a war
between England and some other power,
an unfriendly executive in Ireland would
menace England's success. These are
old tales They have grown 50 common to
Englishmen that they cease to pay any
attention to them except for campaign
purposes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
settling the Case of Hand

Speaking of Circuit Judge Hudson's de-
cision declaring the dispensary act of
South Carolina unconstitutional. the Col
umbia Register, the recognized organ of
Gov Tillman, says: ''The state will APP
peal from Judge Hudson's decision, which
appeal win take the matter out of his
hands. The supreme court will hear the
appeal at once, owing to its Importance.
The result will be a reversal of Judge
Hudson's writ of injunction"
The Register seems to be quite positive
as to what the supreme court will do. 1t
would be somewhat surprised if it should
be mistaken. We assume that the court
will not be influenced in the least by poll
tics, but will interpret the law to the best
of its ability.
Judge Hudson has the reputation of
being an excellent lawyer and there is no
doubt that he believes his decision to be
correct. And there are many who think
his view of the law is the right one In
an interview in Washington the other
day Ex-senator Wade Hampton said
THE disponsary law is plainly uncon-
stitutional, and will be so decided" He
may not be well versed in the law, but
he is a man Of great good sense.
We do not pretend to predict what the
decision of the supreme court in South
Carolina will be in the dispensary case
but we submit that the Register is rather
too positive for the comfort of the court
when it says the court will set aside
Judge Hudson's decision and declare the
dispensary law constitutional
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13

a Kansas farmer has solved the money
problem to his own profit and satisfaction
by the adoption of a scheme that will at
once commend itself to populist financial
experts. His farm chances to rest upon
a salt deposit, which he found to be 300
feet thick. He figured out the amount
of salt represented by his l60 acres, and
upon the estimated amount issued
$4,000 in non DEMONSTRATING bonds ut 50
each. The bonds, of course. are secured
by the salt in the earth, which the farmer
has figures to prove is worth
S3,O00,0O0 These bonds he placed
in the market, and for them
strange to say, he found purchasers
AS no interest is promised or paid on the
bonds, meddlesome state or national laws
cannot reach them, and they circulate in
the neighborhood as money. With modi-
tications to suit the locality, this system
of finance might be applied in almost any
locality. If there happens to be no salt
handy, kaolin, coal, iron ore. ebert, or
even common mud, might do as basis for
the bonds
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13

What has become of all that storm the
republican press tried to raise about Poin-
dexter Dunn's ears a short while ago?
Their tin thunder was very ominous and
the lightning flashes of their wrath was
terrifying for some three or four days
then all became serene. Why didn't they
go on and annihilate Mr.. DUMB Was it
because he disarmed them by denying a
false story and then keeping his mouth
shutl
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
CURRENT COMMENT.
ST. Christopher Columbus.

Columbus will make a very tOlerable saint
as saints go, and our needs in this regard
having once been recognized we may hope
that more of these favors will come our way
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13

Essex county, New Jersey, is laying a
substantial foundation for prosperity in
its roads. That county" says the Phil
adelphia Press, has built thirty-eight
miles of roads with a twelve-inch Telford
pavement and varying in width from so
TO 100 feet These roads radiate out from
Newark connecting with it tho outlying
towns and villages. They cost 81 100, 900
for construction and right of way and
were paid for by issuing county bonds. -
it is encouraging to know that while the
most of US are talking good roads at least
one community is building them
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13

Ten or twelve years ago the death Of a
supreme court justice was a matter to set
the tongues Of the nation waggiug and
arouse intense partisanship Now, how
ever, the question of successor to jus
tice Blatchford is hardly rcckoned in
connection with politics. a democrat
viii. OF course, succeed him; which con
clusion is yiewe1 by democrats and re
pubGcans with equal composure. Party
divisions on the supreme bench are re
gardcd as things of the past never to re
cur. hence almos. the sole desire Of the
people Is that man eminently fitted for
the position shall be chosen.
There are in the postal service now some
thousands more postmasters than there
were waen President Harrison's term was
four no lths old therefore if Mr. Cleve-
land S axman in the postoflice department
had been as active as Mr. Harrison's, in
proportion to the number of men under
his supervision, the number of heads in
the basket on July would have approx
mated 1900 However, Mr. Maxweu's
record of thirdclass postmastcrs be-
headed during the first four months of this
administration is 1886, against total of
1l,l09 chopped off by Mr.. Clarksou during
the first four months Of the Harrison ad-
ministration. These figures indicate the
difference between the feverish haste of
the Harrison administration TO get demo
Gratis out Of Office without regard for the
public service, and the deliberate consid-
Grafton that the Cleveland administration
is giving the service while chopping heads.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13

some Of our state contemporaries vocif-
0rous'y claim THAT thev ara .frash from
the peoulc and Therefore know that the
free coiuage of silver is the thing needed
% settle The financial muddle Their
freshness Is undisputod But if "a
whole state should unanimously demand
free coinage and the governments dollar
stamp on 30 cents worth of silver 10
would not prove that free coinage is the
needed seiative- The trouble is that the
masses have only a superficial knowledge
Of the silver question. II Is an inter
national question. and one which this gov
eminent, single handed. cannot solve as
IL might be pleased To- The MoRNING
News and its sound money coutempora-
ries, therefore, are not chasing gold
bugs, " but are merely exerting their in
fiuence against specious arguments in
favor Of a debased silver currency and
speaking for a sound currency.
The eighteenth annual session and ex-
hibtion of the Georgia State Horticul-
tural Society will be held at Athens on
Wednesday and Thursday, Aug and 3.
The official prospectus of the exhibition
invites all fruit growers, horticulturists
and progressive agriculturists, and ladies
especially, to take part in the event. The
display will embrace all Georgia-grown
fruits. flowers and vegetables, with the
special object in view of promoting fruit
culture in the state. II is asserted, and
upon good ground, that the society has
had remarkable and beneficial influence
upon the fruit-growing industry of
Georgia.
The number of Atlanta young men
who have recently been going the pace
that kills suggests that il would be a
good thing for Atlanta to spot the pace
makers and induce them to hold up
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

MISUNDERSTANDING l Lodge No. 10 +. aud
a NJ.
SPECIAL NoTICEs-Grand opening OF
Eohings cafe, Smokers Notice, Chatham
Pharmacy Notice. Max stern, Executor Lee
gal Notice. Max Stern Executor Estate of
Louis stern; Notice to Water Takers, Bar
rels for Sale. Haynes & Elton; Eggs. John
Lyons & CO. The Chatham Real Estate and
Improvement Company: Trotting Horse Jer-
emiah For sale. Notice to Superior Court
Jurors.
MILITARY ORDERS Order No IS, German
Volunteers; Oglethrope Light Infantry Or
der No T. Georgia Hussars.
LEGAL DEMONSTRATION for the Incorpor-
alton of the Agricultural and Mechanical As
ISOLATION OF Georgia: Notice 10 Debtors and
Creditors Estate Cord Wendelken, de
ceased
WE TAKE STocK-Falk Clothing Com
pany
EDUCATIONAL LAW Washington
and Lee University
How-B H. Levy and Bro
BOX THEN ALI.-Appel and Schaul
UNCLAIMED MONEY DeBerardy Bros.
London.
RAILROAD SCHEDULES Savannah, Ameri-
Gus ana Montgomery railroad.
STEAMSHIP SCHEDULE.-Baltimore Steam
ship Company.
CHEAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENTS Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; To Rent;
For sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Tybee will have soon to discover a sea-
serpent, or something better. Capt Dag
gets whales to the northward and Bruins
wick's devil-fish to the southwark are
too great CONGRATULATIONS TO be ig-
norad.
It would be intctesting TO know who
those Colorado siiyerites propose to fight
in case war is forced upon" them. viii
it be Wall street, or the per capita"
fiend that they are always talking about,
or all of the nations of the earth that
neglect or refuse to make silver a money
standard, The abstract assertions of the
silver advocates are sometimes very
puzzling.
It appears that investigation into the
disaster at Tripoli may have the result
of hauling Admiral Tryon down from the
heroic position he was at first given. On
previous occasions his orders
had been found so wild and
cratic as to excuse, if not war
rant, disobedience of them. The Pail
Mall Gazette is of the opinion that if
Tryon had not been drowned he would
have been shot as punishment for criminal
recklessness
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13

EASTERN OFFICE % Park Row, New
York City c. $. FAULKNER Manager
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13

The New Orleans Picayune says: The
past season has witnessed the largest
domestic rice crop ever grown, the Lou
isiana yield alone having Appropriated
100000 bags Of rough rice; but, at the
same time, unfortunately, the lowest
prices on record have been experienced.
1t is therefore questionable whether the
producers have realized any considerable
profit from their enormous yield" The
previous average production of rice in
Louisiana had been about 1,0OO, 600 bags
and the Picayme points out that nothing
but low prices could have been expected
in a season which witnessed such an OK
traordinary increase of output.
Those who have been saying all along
that friendly relations no longer exist be-
tween MIR. Cleveland and Mr. Whitney
are beginning to entertain different
opinion. They now say there has been
no open breach. They win admit after a
while, probably, that Mr. Cleveland and
Mr.. Whitney are about as good friends as
they ever were.