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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06
The rurkisb Bath a swindle.

A solemn looking man came into an uptown
Turkish bath yesterday afternoon. and said
he wanted to take a bath says the Buffalo
Express. He registered. gave up his valu-
ables and addressed. An attendant took him
IN hand and he disappeared into the first hot
room.
Two hours later he stalked into the recep-
ton room clad in a sheet He asked the man
at the desk for the proprietor.
Il am the proprietor" said the man.
We'll, how much is this thing going to cost
me-"
One dollar, if you don't want to give the
rubber anything
"One dollar>'
~ CS. sir. -
The solemn looking man grew agitated. he
danced around bit. Say he shouted,
you don intend to charge me 81 for that
dOd- blamed swindle. do you:"
Certainly, and it's not swindle, either.
That bath was worth dollar of any man S
money"
The soIemn-looking man danced around
some more. Not on your life he SAID. 4
! dom see how. You went into the hot
room, didn't you and took a sweat"
Yes
And went into the steamroom and got a
shower and steam bathf'
And had a rub and scrub"
And took the plunge and had dry rub'"
And had place shown you where you
could lie down.
Yes
We'll, what in blazes more do you want:'
Now. see here. and the solemn looking
man spoke very earnestly. this here is the
first Turkish bath 1 ever took. All my life [
bin reading Of turkish baths and the luxury
and delicious languor that followed them, 1
bin told that when a man gets through with
them operations you We been talking about he
can lay down ana have the pleasantest sort Of
| thoughts. | done all there was to do. / had
reasons for wantin pleasant thoughts. Did I
get EN-? Nix. I couldn't think Of a blamed
thing but note l got to meet tomorrow
without no money to meet il with. Pleas
ant thoughts-rats' l could have thought Of
that sittn' on any old horse block in town.
he hull thing is fraud and l won't pay but
so cents"
And he didn't
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06
A New story of Gen. Grant.

In Blue and Gray for April appears letter
from Bryant S. Parker, formerly of a South
Carolina regiment, in which he relates the
following incident, charao teristic of the great
general quiet kindness:
In one hard-fought battle in Virginia in
which my regiment lost heavily in killed and
wounded, was taken prisoner with a lot of
others of our regim ent We were placed
under guard at the rear, and all were
searched, | had in my pocket my Masonic
demit. Next morning the guard came and
told me that 1 was wanted at Gen. Grants
headquarters. / thought my time to die had
surely come. and that | would not see Sallie
and the children any more. l was sure the
general was going to have me shot. | was
The only one of our boys who was wanted at
the headquarters. and the guard told me
and was told to go inside. l was fright
ened almost to death. My teeth ra.tled
my knees shook, and the Iersplratlon was
streaming from my face although the day
was cold. However 1 entered and the tent
was closed and L was alone with the com
mander-in-chief of the United States forces
He saw that was so frightened could hardly
speak, and arising from his camp stool he
shook hands with me and asked me to be
seated. He was so kind and good that soon
felt at home, After talking pleasantly for
while he asked me to what regiment / be-
| longed and where my home was. He then
picked up my demit from table, and asked
me If it was mine. replied that it was. He
then asked me II | was a Mason. and soon
convinced him of that. He then went to the
table and wrote my parole, gave me some
, money and told me to 60 home to Sallie and
the children. The guard was called. and with
hearty good Dye L departed from Gen.
Grants headquarters the happiest man in the
army. Gen. Grant was nigh v tine gentle
man, whom always remember in my prayers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06
Ed;o, Against Long Skirts.

A Chicago telephone exchange manager
has issued an order directing that the
girls employed in the exchange shall here
after wear skirts that clear the floor by
at least three inches
Unaccompanicd by an explanation it
might appear that the manager was going
into the dress reform business, or in
tended to vie with the famous man mil
liner of Paris as dictator of fashion In
either case the hello girls" and their
sisters at large would have good grounds
for vigorous protest. But it appears
that'the manager had no idea of catering
to the demands of the dress reform fad
with bit of sumptuary legislation on
private scale, or of interfering with the
personal liberty of his employees merely
because he was in position to do so.
The exchange, or central office, pre-
sided over by the manager is quite a
large room, and number of girls are
employed there. The room contains
great many delicate electrical and other
instruments, which are costly and require
the most painstaking care. Some of the
instruments are more or less exposed to
the air, and are effected by even the i'm
palpable dust that floats in the atmos-
phere. With a hundred or more girls
trailing long skirts over the floor as they
briskly went about their duties. it can
easily be seen that the air was kept
always more or less laden with dust,
which settled on and in the instru-
ments and impaired their effectiveness.
| Several vexations delays in the
! service, caused by the failure
of dust-choked instruments to perform
their functions properly led to the issu-
ing of the order prohibiting long skirts.
And, indeed, the order is not unreason-
| able after all
Notwithstanding the manager had no
| thought of posing as a reformer of
woman's costumes, his order will furnish
| the dress reformers with an argument. If
long skirts are bad things for tel
| ephone instruments, how much worse
must they be for the more delicate in
| struments, the human breathing ap-
| paratus,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06
The Recent Fleotions.

The republicans are finding some com
fort in municipal elections that have
taken place within the last few days and
in the state election in Rhode Island It
is true these elections have been favor
able to the Republican party, but it will
not 90 to assume that they mean that the
Democratic party has lost its majority in
the country, and that the next House will
! be republican. These town elections mean
nothing more than that there is some dis
satisfaction in the democratic ranks.
/ This dissatisfaction will continue if the
hard times remain, and it will disappear
/ if prosperity returns soon. 1t is not at
/ all probable that any considerable mum
Der Of democrats have finally abandoned
/ democratic principles.
| Congress is largely responsible for
whatever dissatisfaction there is in the
! Democratic party 1t was called together
I in extra session to repeal the purchasing
/ clause Of the Sherman law The House
acted with reasonable promptness, but
! the Senate wasted many weeks before it
! could be induced to do the work required
! Of it. In the meantime the country was
/ suffering intensely. Banks were closing
/ their doors, mills were shutting down
/ and business was shrinking so rapidly as
/ TO threaten general financial disaster.
| The failure of the Senate to appreciate
the importance of acting promptly
created a great deal of dissatisfaction
The House passed the Wilson bill two
months ago, and yet the Senate has only
! just begun TO discuss that measure. 1t
will be two months before it is sent to the
I President. Business is reviving slowly,
/ it is true, but it would revive quickly if
there were clear understanding as to
what the changes in the tariff are to be.
All that prevents the country from being
/ fairly prosperous now is the uncertainty
as to the tariff. There is no lack Of
! money. The banks are full of it. Loans
are offered al a remarkably low rate of
! interest. As soon as the Wilson bill is
signed by the President business and the
industries will become so active that
there. viii be a demand for all the money
that is now idle.
Hard times are always charged against
the party in power, and while the Demo
cratic party is not responsible for the ex-
isting hard times it is responsible for
! delay in enacting legislation that would
| bring prosperity. Before the elections
next fall, however, the country will be
enjoying a fair share of prosperity and
the dissatisfaction with the Democratic
party viii disappear Democrats who
have been sulking will admit that while
the proud old party has been little slow
IN carrying out its pledges, it has
carried them out, and will agree that
the good Of the country demands it's re-
tention in power. Republicans who are
rejoicing over successes in minor elections
now will have no occasion to rejoice when
the returns from the congressional cleo
tiOns are received.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06

MEETNGs-Landrum Lodge, No. 4s, F. &
A. NJ; Savannah Benevolent Association;
Tammany Club.
SPECIAL NOTICES erfumed Sea Foam
Soap. Otto Schults; lie Panic Cigars. at
Henry suffers; Your Feet, l. Davis, Local
ChiropOdist; Florida Pine Balsam; Notice 20
Superior Court Jurors; Notice Julian Schley
Notice to City Court Jurors,
BETHESDA ANNIvERsARY - The Union
Society
CONCERT LAsT NIGHT-Ludden Bates
Music House
LEGAL NoTICE-Peution for Renewal of
Charter Of Ludden & Bates Southern Music
House
You've GOT A HEAD b H Levy & Bro.
To-DAY-At Adlers
Schaul
SHOES, SUITS. Etc Collat's.
AUCTION SALES Hosiery. Notions. Furui-
ture. Etc, by ]. IT, Oppenheim s. Son; Fine
Books, by G. Mclaughlin & son; Carpets,
Mating. Etc. by A, X W ilson.
STEAMSHIP SCHEDULES Ocean Steamship
Company.
PoTAToEs-W. T. Green.
BALD HEAD EDDIE-Falk Clothing Com
peny
HEADQUARTERS For BOYS SHIRT WAISTS
-Falk Clothing Company
HAVE You SEEN THOSE STRAW HATS
Falk Clothing COMPANY
CHEAP COLUMN ApvERTIsEMENTs-H
Wanted. Employment Wanted. For Rent;
For Sale Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06

If it wore less serious ma tier it would
be quite amusing TO note New JERSEYS
attitude towards the colored man and
brother. New Jersey, it will be borne in
mind is never backward in criticising
whatever the people Of any southern
state may do that appears to infringe the
colOred brothers. rights in the least de-
gree. Three or four weeks or a month
ago at Franklin Park, two negro men en-
tered the sleeping room of Mr.. and Mrs.
Moore Baker in the night time and
brutaly murdered Mrs. Baker and her
baby, and were in turn killed by Moore
Baker, after a desperate fight One out
come of that tragedy has been the organ
i7ation of the Law and Order League of
Franklin Park. A few DAYS ago the
league issued a proclamation ordering
the blacks to leave the town, and six
families of them had obeyed up to three
days ago. Discussing the situation. the
New Brunswick corr sp)ldent Of tho
New York Press the Interest of the re-
publican papers. has this to say: THE
colored men have become a nuisance in
the neighborhood. They enter tho coun-
try stores at night and hang around. oc-
cupymg all the chairs and space or the
counters discussing village topics to the
exclusion OF the farmers and buyers. ="
There Is nothing like personal contact to
change the northern white mans opinion
Of the race We have urged, and still
urge that more blacks 20 north and west.
Their presence there would tend to mod
ify northern opinion OF the treatment of
the blacks in the south.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06
BRIGHT BITS.

I've never had the courage to get mar
ried."
Haven't, Ell? What's your businessY'
oh, I'm only lor-tamer. Philadelphia
Record.
1T pains me very much to spank you,
Johnny said his mother with deep feeling
and | shall have to turn you over to your
father. His hands are harder.-Chicago
Tribune.
Bnly-Jimmy why don't you get new
wheel-a pneumatic tire:
Jimmy-Oh, my lungs are weak-I never
could keep the thing blown up.-Louisvtlle
CONFECTIONERY
Teacher-Now remember. that in order to
become proficient vocalist you must have
patience.
Miss Fltpkins-Yes and so must the neigh.
bors.- Washington star.
Harry-Mamma, who was the inventor of
the cotton gin:
Mamma lsiernlyl-I don't know my son.
Nor do ] take any interest in liquor or liquor
Misunderstanding Bulletin.
"Blykins is a very weu-informed man"
Il used TO think so"
What has happened to shake your faith?"
We'll; you see, he has qualified as a juror
In a capital case. w aShington Star.
Mature rarely wastes. but sometimes she
does, said - at the Zoo. Now, look az
the elephant. for instance. Two tails practi-
cally and vet with hide absolutely iInper-
vious TO flies. N Boston Home Journal
You say you have been in Kansas City
l suppose the place was built almost wholly
on bluffs -e5Db
Il guess it was. There seemed to be blamed
little money around. ~ Buffalo Courier.
Mrs Figg-What is the reason never see
you playing with Jimmy Briggs any more.
Iommy-He amt got no respect for the
fashions. He wants TO be piayin marbles in
top-splnnin' time-Indiandpolis Journal.
Oh, busy busy little moth.
Please spare our winter cloaks.
And eat next summer camphor balls
And all the ice cream jokes
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mrs. Callahan want to get pair OF shoes
! for the little boy
hOpman-French kid?
Mrs. L. Observation-Disclosures not. He's
| my own son born an bred near Iammany
| hall Harlem Life.
| Pegg- Sometimes the, absolute faith my
| boy has IN my wisdom makes me almost
| ashamed of myself
| Potts on need not worry. It will average
| up all right. BY the time he is 20 he will
| think you know nothing at all.,1it-Bits.
She-Why didn't you come around last
! night?
! he--I didn't get through at the Office until
| SO late that hadn't time TO 90 home to dress,
| and didn like to call in my business suit
She-Why not: Don't you mean business?
| Detroit Free Press.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06
Virginia vernacular.


From the New York Sun.
These southern names are apt to get
Strange twists from Yankee tongues you be
When first heard of that gay toy
Appointed Consul at Annoy,
] do not think I was to blame
Because l mispronounced his name.
1t looked as il 1t rhymed with Doge.
And so ! said: u. Hampton Hoge."
Whereat the people laughed; but
Kept stiu, and never asked them why.
Next time I tried another dodge
And boldly spoke OF Hampton Hoge."
! saw them grin. like those before,
And knew had it wrong once more,
The name had now become bogy,
But came out with Hampton oge."
And those who heard, plainly saw,
Politely smothered "haw. haw'
Great Scott! cried. still in the fog,
Can it then, be: J. Hampton Hoye;"
tried it on that way next trip:
Alas twas but another slip.
l thought it might. in some strange way,
BE French. Monsieur j. h Hoge."
As had reason to expect,
I did not get the thing correct.
At last I sought my friend. Judge Hoke
From the line country of Roanoke.
From him I too. as you shall see,
A lesson in orthOepy;
And now that have caught the vogue,
You hear me say: u. hampton Hoge"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06
what Senatorial Courtesy Means.

The meaning of senatorial courtesy"
has been greatly broadened recently. It
now means practically that the senators
shall have the right to dictate the federal
nominations for Office in their respective
states. The President, although bearing
the responsibility for the nominations,
must nominate only such men as are salts
factory to the senators from the state for
which the nominations are made.
For several days the Senate has been
discussing certain nominations for Flor
ida Senator Call is opposed to the men
nominated and asks his brother sena-
tors to assist in defeating them,
Nothing in the dispatches indicates that
the nominees are unfit for the Offices for
which the President has chosen them.
The statement is that Senator Can asserts
they are his personal enemies. The sena-
tor wants men nominated who are friends
of his. He wants to use his position to
reward his friends. AS far as the public is
informed, the interest and wishes of the
people, from the senator's point of view
are matters of no consideration The
whole fight is to defeat the senator's
political enemies and reward his political
friends
The fact must not be overlooked that if
the senator's friends should prove to be
unworthy of the trust reposed in them,
no blame would attach to him. The
President would be blamed
Is not this carrying senatorial courtesy
little too far? The only questions the
Senate should ask about an appointee are
these Is he a man of good moral char
ac;er, and has he necessary qualifications
and ability to discharge the duties of the
office to which he has been nominated Z?
If those questions are answered in the
affirmative there ought to be no delay in
confirming his nomination.
Instead of asking about the nominee S
moral character and qualifications, how
ever, the Senate wants to know if the
nominee has the approval of the senators
from his own state. If the senator's who
are politically interested in the nomina-
ton are satisfied their senatorial courtesy
permits the nomination to be confirmed.
If they are not the nomination must be
rejected.
Through senatorial courtesy, the Sen
ate has become place for trading in tho
Offices The nominations of good men
may be defeated and Of bad ones con
frmed; but what do senators care, pro-
vided they succeed in getting their
friends into Office II is not to be won
dered at that the people are beginning to
find fault with the Senate.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06

Thirty cubic feet of paper currency, in
bills ranging in denominations from $40
to 81 900, must be a very inspiring sight.
That is what the officials Of the sub
treasury in New York saw on the floor of
the building on last Tuesday, when a
banking firm had finished paying for the
Cherokee bonds it bought not long ago
The firm did not pay for the bonds in cubic
feet of money of course; the pile was sup
posed to contain S6,74O,OO0, and the clerks
counted it and said it did.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06
a Silver Idea From Chicago.

Ffom the chicago Record IInd.).
It is by no means too late for the United
States to take a square right-about-face in ITS
disastrous policy IN dealing with the silver
question. Let the silver be coined into non
legal tender pieces and sold to merchants at
Its bullion value, with the cost Of mintage
added. Tor Asiatic exchange The result
would he that the new demand would send the
value Of silver above the present quotations
and more would be done to restore the ratio
OF l6 TO between silver and gold than could
re accomplished in any other way. Not only
would such policy give us control Of the
Chinese trade but would go long way toward
restoring silver TO its proper place as a money
metal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06

There are political prophets who are
able to sec in Gov. Northen the dark
horse of the senatorial race They figure
out that the other candidates will each
get enough votes to put the legislature in
deadlock. In that possible condition of
affairs 1.-THE friends Of each candidate will
turn to Northen Is second choice" and
elect him. Meantime there are those who
do the governor the injustice to think he
is playing a Jim Blaine kind of political
game with declinations.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06
Small Men in Big Places.

TON INC bOSIOn TIOO IDem.).
The recent troubles of Gov Waite and of
Gov. lillman show that the governors duties
are by no means so mOnotouous and conyen-
tlonal as they were once supposed to be
Crises Of more or less alarming signi-
ticance at any moment are liable to arise
When a crisis like these does arise woe to
that state that has mediocre or erratc man
for its governor. IL is a serious calamity for
state to have an executive with a constitu-
tioual tendency to do the wrong thing at the
wrong time. Too many American states have
been careless Of late years in the selection OF
their chief executives The best man in any
state is noon too good to be that states gov
prupr
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06

1t appears that some practical Joker,
who did not mind paying cable rates, sent
Clyde Shropshire, Of this state, vice
consul at Paris, a hundred word cable
gram. signed "Northeu, Governor" in
viting him to take the place in the Senate
made vacant by Gen. Colquitt's death.
The message was dated April l, but MIR
Shropshire did not attach any Importance
to that, and was about 10 make arrange
ments to come home when he found he
had been hoaNed. 1t was a cruel hoax, by
the way.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06
Finanee settled; nov settle the Tarifr.
From the New York Journal OF Commerce
and Commercinl Bmllelin IndL.

FROM the New York journal OF Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin undJ.
The currency question has been settled for
three years at lea st. and probably for q much
longer period. Now will congress have mercy
upon the business and industrial world and
decide the tariff questions 1t Is not so i'm
portant what the rates of duty are as that
men Snould know a once what they are. IL
Is now nearly seventeen months since a
national election resulted IN a notice that the
tarlH was to revised. and to tie revised
ooWnwardS. II the Senate should endorse
the changes in the bill recommended bv the
finance committee 10 would probably take
some time TO harmonic the differences he
tween the two Houses, To render the future
still more un, c,tain there are some threats
oy the angry silver men that there will DO no
tarlH revision at all; that they will beat the
Dill out OF revenge. be spring trade has
been paralyzed by the uncertainty. and now
the ran trade is beginning TO be tniuriously
aHected oylt No bllnder in the fixing OF
any rates of duty could possibly be so great a
mistake. politically or commercially. as a few
weeks more Of this INDIGESTION.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06

Three months or more age the supreme
court of South Carolina had argued be-
fore it cases involving the constitution
ality OF the now famous dispensary liquor
law No indication has yet been given
By the court as to when it win render a
decision. The mayor and aldermen of
tue city of Camden have sent a memorial
to the supreme court praying that the
matter be settled one way or the other as
quickly as possible, in order that the PEG
pie may know what to depend on Such
appeals 10 supreme courts are rather out
Of the ordinary.