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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
PERSONAL.

In Melbourne there is a barber named
Taylor and next door TO him is tailor
named Shave.
Thackeray's. dinner service, which after
his death was bought by Mrs Anthony
Trollope, is now offered for sale in London
Ira Ward and his wife, who were mar
ried seventy seven years ago, are living
on farm near New Hudson, VT They
are beginning to feel that they are getting
on in years.
'Trilby' is not the first book of that
name. In 1922 Charles Nodler. afterward
a member of the French academy, pub
lshed in Paris a fairy story entitled
"Trilby, or the Fay of Argyle"
Queen Victoria has aged very much dur
ing the autumn, as is confirmed by the
most recent pictures of her majesty. She
looks her age, which is rs years and 6
months. The rheumatism in her knees
is made visible in the expression of her
countenance. If'the queens health is un-
satisfactory, however, there has been
reason to believe ever since Lord Rose
berry became premier that her mind is
sound and strong and that she has a
truly royal will. She understands British
interests and politics and craftsmanship
as well as any subject in her kingdom.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

II may transpire that the name OF Mich
olas II VIII be written in history as one OF
the greatest Of Russia's rulers. The young
car has more opportunities 20 achieve
greatness than the occupant Of the throne
OF any other civilized nation. His is the
only absolute monarchy in Christendom.
His is the only government among the
great powers in which the people have
no voice. In Russia alone the will OF the
ruler is supreme law. Nicholas may make
himself great by making himself less pow
erful- He may make himself more com
handing by surrendering part Of his au-
thority. And he starts out upon his career
as a ruler in a manner that encourages
great hopes for the future OF his people.
He has been regarded by most sketch
writers as a weak young man. physically
and morally. and fearful OF making
changes in the customs Of his father. Yet
on the day Of his wedding he demonstrated
his courage by dispensing with the guards
Of troops and police along the line Of the
procession. His father would not have
done that. To move without having his
pathway hedged with troops would have
been regarded by Alexander as an invi-
tation to nihilists to assassinate him. BY
placing himself in the unrestrained
view of the populace Nicholas pleased the
people immensely. They appreciate the
confidence he reposed in them. Even
Stepnaik. the nihilist. commended the act
and expressed the wish that the new car
would reconcile everybody to his reign by
making concessions to the people.
Stepnaik referred to the pardoning OF
political prisoners and the granting of
popular representation in the government.
And il is said Nicholas is favorably in
clined to each Of these propositions. In
deed. since his succession to the throne he
has already pardoned a number of polit-
ical convicts, and a ST. Petersburg cable
of a few days ago-which presumably
passed the official press censor-said he
contemplated a number Of reforms. the
principal one of which was the establish
ment Of parliamentary representation.
The single act of creating a parliament in
Russia would win fame for the country's
ruler.
When Nicholas was the czarowitz he
made an extensive tour of Europe. Be-
ing an heir to a throne. he naturally gave
some attention to the systems of govern
ment in the countries he visited; and he
must have contrasted the constitutional
monarchies with the despotism of his
father. That the differences were to the
of the latter there can be
no doubt. Having seen the benefits de-
rived from permitting the populace to as
sist in the government, it would not be
strange if Nicholas should wish to give
his own people those benefits; especially
if he is the frank, unaffected and COM
nonsense young man that the cables now
saw he is
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
A Currency Platform for 1895.
From the Philadelphia, Record Dem.).

There is enough time for the majority
of the House to pass a currency act on
the general lines of Secretary Carlisle $
report, and send it to the Senate before
a bill passed by the House would con-
stitute the democratic platform on the
currency for 1896. AS a sincere pledge
of adherence to the honest money princi-
pies of Jefferson and Jackson. it would
inspire the country with renewed conf
dence in the Democratic party, and would
prove a mighty factor in maintaining the
party in power. Without such guaranty of
the good intentions concerning the cur
rency the future success of the democrac y
is not in the least probable; nor is it to be
desired. To put the question on its low
est plane of political morality, a party
that is incapable of wisely and safely di-
recting the monetary policy of the govern
ment does not deserve, and Will not be
permitted. to enjoy the offices and spells
of government.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
Abusing the Postal FrankinE Privilee,


The first assistant postmaster general
in his annual report calls attention to the
open and growing violations of the postal
ranking privilege by congressman. The
law permits members of congress to send
parts of the Congressional Record and
other public documents through the mails
free Of postage. Under the rules of the
two houses almost anything in literature
can be got into the Congressional Record,
hence the Thanking privilege is very broad
in it's application. 1t will be recalled that
only short while ago the whole of one
of Henry Georges books was printed in
the Record as "a part of the remarks"
Of a member of the House, and when the
Wilson bill was in the Senate Senator
Quay had yards upon yards of newspaper
clippings and book extracts printed in the
Record as parts of his speech. There was
practically no limit to the quantity or
quality of the stuff that might be showed
into the Record at the governments ex-
pense. Thus. whatever might be wanted
for campaign material could be dumped
into the Record and lawfully mailed under
the members franking privilege.
Notwithstanding this liberality of con-
gress to congressman, the first assistant
postmaster general says members have
been and are openly violating the law by
mailing under their franks matter that is
in no sense public documents. Campaign
literature has been chiefly the character
of the matter mailed for some months,
though there will now probably be some
let-up in the mailing of such matter until
the opening of the next campaign. And
not only have the members violated the
law in Thanking matter not permitted I'M
der the law, but they have also permitted
advertisements to be circulated through
the mails under their franks.
There is no penalty attached to the vio-
lation of the franking privilege. The
trainers of the law probably trusted in
the sense of honor of those to whom the
privilege would be extended to restrain
them from abusing it. If they did it ap-
pears their trust was misplaced. The
first assistant postmaster general advises
congress to make a penalty for such viola
tions. There ought to be a limit of the
extent to which members may work
the government. But there are a good
many politicians in congress, and the pol
itician's political conscience" is usually
very elastic, however punctilious he may
be as a private individual.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

The fifteen commissioners whose duty it
will be to see that the state of Georgia
has a proper exhibit at the Cotton States
Exposition win not have at their disposal
a fund as large as could be desired. They
may not be able to show the states re-
sources to the very best advantage; sim
a great deal can be done with a few
thousand dollars sometimes. 1t is thought
that with legislative appropriation of
s1I500 the whole fund available for a
state exhibit will be $4,000. The commits
sioners may be able to get some of the
counties to supplement this amount with
special exhibits, so that on the whole me
showing viii do great credit to the en-
pire state of the south" At the same
time, larger fund and a smaller board
of commissioners might have improved
matters.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
BRIGHT BITS.

THAT lady over there? oh, yes, she is
very clever. She has mastered three lam
guages and her husband. ''-F'liegende
Batter.
Her Father-What are your habits?
Her AdOrer-You ought to know, sir. I
have been calling on your daughter every
night for three months.-Life.
Mrs. Hously-Bridget, 1 am very sorry
that you broke that vase.
Bridget-Is it only sorry We are? Faith.
an its meself that is sore about it. 1t
dropped on me fut.-Philadelphia Record.
Penam-Col. Bloodymans old war
traits still cling to him.
NickS-HoW so?
Penam-I dined with him last night and
he gave the waiter no quarter.-Harlem
Life
Won Blumer-My wife made me a present
of that chiffoniere for Christmas, and
now we don't speak
Plankington-What's the matter?
Won Blumer-I put some of my collars
in it-Puck
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

The insinuation that Ex-Gov. Ben Till
man used his Office to get money dishon-
estly must be backed up by unimpeacb-
able testimony before people will believe it.
Tillman is fire eater, and is absolutely
unscrupulous in dealing with his politi-
cal enemies. But morally the man has al
ways been regarded as being straight as
a string During his terms of office even
his bitterest open enemies did not charge
him with jobbery for the benefit of his
pocket; and they never hesitated to charge
him with anything they could find ground
for.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
Talking of an Extra Session.
From the New York World Dem.).

If no law for the protection of the treas
ury and the reform of the currency shall
be passed this winter an extraordinary
emergency Will exist, and it will be the
duty of the President to call the new con-
gress together. In addition to this the
country wants to know, and has a right to
know before the elections of next year,
what the policy of the republicans is to
be. They cannot be permitted after OBJ
tanning control of the House, to so to
sleep for year, as some of their too
crafty leaders propose, and blind the peo-
pie to their purposes as they did in 1888.
An extra session of the Fifty-fourth con-
gress is clearly among the probabilities.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

The collision between electric cars at
the corner of Broughton and Barnard
streets on Saturday night was only a
comparatively serious affair But it
might have been a terrible affair. On
Saturday nights that particular street
corner is always crowded, and the cleo
trio cars are usually filed to overflow
ing with passengers. Both streets are
wide, and there is no earthly excuse for
street cars, under competent manage
ment, running into each other. The
fact that only two persons were injured
Saturday night was due more to good
luck than to good management Whether
the laxity of management was on the
part of the motorman of the attacking
car or of the company is an open aues-
ton The motorman says he set his
brake and tried to stop the car, but that
the wheels slipped and he couldn't con-
troll the car. If that is true the company
should be blamed for permitting an I'M
controlable car to be operated on its
lines. If the motorman failed to set his
break properly, the company should see
TO 1t that public life and limbs are not
again endangered by him. One or two
more occurrences like that of Saturday
night might induce the city council to re-
quire emergency air or electric brakes
on the cars.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

1t would be rather remarkable if Sen
ator PETER, hammering around as ne
does, failed to hit the nail on the head
once in a while. He has certainly struck
it in his bill to abolish what is known as
the congressional funeral junket When
ever a member dies in Washington his
remains are accompanied to his home by
a committee of both houses. The COM
mitteemen ride in a special car. and some
times a special train and are supplied
with an amount of food and drink far be-
yond the necessities Of the occasion. More
than one funeral Junket has turned out
to be nothing less than a congressmen's
debauch. to the scandalizing of the coun-
try. Senator PETERS bill provides that the
bodies of deceased congressman shall be
decently coffined and delivered to their
families by the sergeant-at-arms of either
branch of congress, and that there the
expense to the government shall end. 1t
is a common-sense bill, and should be
passed. Congressional funeral junkets are
in no sense congressional courtesies."
They are oftener insults to the dead.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

If the state Legislators could only be
sure that their minds were made up when
they make up their minds. they would
get along better with their work. But
they are constantly reconsidering bills.
and the reconsideration nearly always re-
suits in placing the matter precisely where
It was before.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
Everybody Knew It Before.
From the Washington Post Qnd)

Hon. Thomas Taggart. a prominent In
diana democrat, takes the middle of the
be a presidential candidate in 1896 We
hasten to assure Mr.. Taggart that no
one Will be seriously shocked by this bit
OF information. In fact, some people
went so far as to suspect as much last
fall when Mr. Harrison began to cavort
about the country and send checks to va
rious campaign funds.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
index TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-Clinton Lodge No. 81, F. & A.
M; Members OF Subscription Committee
Savannah Volunteer Guards Fair; De-
Kalb Lodge No. 9, !. o. o. F.; German
Friendly Society.
Special Naturalization of Directors
Merchants National Bank of Savannah;
Don't You Remember Sweet Alice. Ben
Bolt" Morehouse Manufacturing Com
pany.
ADJUSTMENTS - Star Course Entertain
ment Y. NJ. c. A. by the Mendelssohn
Quartette Club Dec. IT,
Auction Sale 49, Incubators, Furniture
Show Cases, Etc, by ]. H. Oppenheim
& Son.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company
The Turning Point in Life-Appel &
Schaul
Plantation wanted-Blake. 2O7 Rutledge
street, Brooklyn.
Legal Notice-Order Of Judge Emory
Speer as to claims against Central Rail-
road and Dependencies.
Steamboat for Sale-The steamtug Impe-
rial.
Ladies Like-Levy's.
To-days the Day-Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Cheap Column Advertisements-H
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
CURRENT COMMENT.
How to Settle Congressional Contests
From the Galveston News Dem).

Contests for seats in congress should
be tried and settled by the courts of the
country, like other lawsuits, and the costs
Htigants. Congress should not waste the
time to which the country is entitled in
the investigation and discussion of con-
tests for seats and salaries. Congress
is not a fair court for the settlement of
such claims
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

A number of Protestant clergymen will
appear before the coming legislature of
Wisconsin to urge the passage of a bill
taxing all church property. The move
ment has grown out of the fact that GER
tain religious bodies have made exceed
ingly large investments in real estate,
which, under the law. escapes taxation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

Out in Kansas dealers in playing cards
avoid paying the tax on them by renting
If the person who rents" the cards fails
to bring them back the dealer cannot help
it, of course. For brilliancy of concep-
tons. go to Kansas.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

During the next two days bills will rush
through the legislature like they were slid
ing down hill on a creased plank.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

Talking through your hat means some
thing now. The other day a Chicago doc
tor was visited by a person to whom he
had been paying money for the suppression
of a disagreeable bit of family history.
The person had previously admitted to the
doctor that the letter alleged to contain
the disagreeable history was a forgery,
and twitted him about being wholly una
BILE to help himself or do anything about it,
When the blackmailer arrived he saw the
doctors silk hat on his desk, but thought
nothing of it. AS a matter of fact the hat
contained a miniature telephone connected
by a fine wire with an instrument in an
other room. A lawyer and a stenographer
were in the other room, and they heard
and wrote down the conversation between
the doctor and the blackmailer in which
the blackmailer again admitted the forg-
cry and twitted the doctor upon his help
lessness. After the interview the doctor
showed the blackmailer the trick, had the
stenographic report read to him. secured
an open confession from him and sent him
to jail.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

During the winter following the sur
render OF the government by the Harrison
administration into the hands OF the Cieve-
land administration. the country was filled
with distress and suffering. Following
four years Of republican rule came a sea-
son OF stagnation and starvation during
which the great cities OF the country were
filled with a furnishing and freezing horde
Of the unemployed. Extraordinary appeals
70 charity were made. Soup houses were
opened in great many cities. and mu-
inequalities were forced to make provis-
ions for the helpless. to keep them from
dying in the streets. Hundreds Of thou
sands Of the unfortunates were cared for
in Chicago. New York and Boston. At the
present time, after two years of "Cleve-
lahdism," there are no hundreds Of thou
sand of unemployed in the cities clamoring
for bread. If there is a solitary municipal
soup house in operation it is not generally
known. If there is a city that has been
forced to make an appropriation from its
treasury to feed its unemployed. the fact
has not been made public. The unem-
ployed poulatlon in Chicago has dropped
back to about its normal proportion. The
same is true Of New York. Mills and fac
tories are at work all over the country,
and the people are beginning to appre-
ciate that they are entering an era Of pros
perity The republicans and the popuIists
may howl as much as they please about
the growing hard times" but a COMPARE
son Of general conditions this winter with
those of last winter will prove that they
are incorrect or insincere, or both.
The bill to make ship burning a capital
crime and punishable with death, which
was passed by the House on Saturday.
grew out of the concerted firing of cot
ton ships in this port some time ago.
Should the bill become a law the ship
burner would be put on the same legal
footing with the murderer and the rapist.
In so far as the legislature is concerned,
no more terrible prospect can be held
out before the ship burner than is en-
braced in the bill. But the difficulty of
apprehending the criminals will remain
as it is to-day. Notwithstanding the large
rewards offered, the persons who fired
the ships here are still enjoying immu-
nifty from punishment for their atrocious
crimes.
The Georgia Senate is now in position
to make itself odious or respected. as it
pleases. If it kills the legislation the peo-
pie imperatively demand, it may expect to
hear something drop at the next election.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
Don't Try to Improve on a Good Thing

Do not put frills on a tailor made gown
nor ~ ~ a. 'ne selt ~ li%sn WIN an or
ter. Both are spoiled by undue ornamental
ton. Not long ago the daughter of dis
tinguished friend of mine was lying i'll
and for long time had been unable to
eat. one day she said:
Papa, do you know that think if
could have some of that corned beef hash
which they make at the Aston house |
could eat some of it
So her father sent a personal note to Mr.
Allen, explaining the circumstances and
Mr.. Allen made up his mind that the in
valid should have the finest dish of corned
beef hash that ever went out of the kitch-
en-. The chef made it himself, and every
piece of meat which went into the COM
position of the hash was cut into fanciful
shapes by special machine. This hash
was then put on a steam table, and taken
by a special messenger to the house of
the invalid. Alas! 1t was not what she
wanted at all. 1t wasn't the hash she
Another case I recall myself was at one
of Col. Ashman's Thanksgiving dinners
at the Sinclair house, when the old man
sent back the special tureen of turtle soup
which had been concocted for the benefit
of his guests, and which had been sweet
ened with two bottles of Madeira
I can't serve that soup to old guests
of the house." he exclaimed. You'd
none of you ever be satisfied with any
thing else
The rays of heat and light are quite in
dependent of each other in their ability
St. Louis Republic. For Illustration, glass
allows the suns heat to pass through as
readily as il does the rays Of light and
that without heating the glass, too. If
the glass. be coated with lampblack how
ever, the rays of light are arrested, but
the heat passes through as before, not a
single degrees difference in the latter phe-
nomenon being noticeable. Then, again.
both heat and light pass through water
in its normal state, the addition of a little
powdered alum (which readily dissolves
without leaving the least murkiness) will
arrest the rays of heat to such an extent
as to almost Immediately raise the tenn
perature of the water to a perceptible de-
gree yet the light continues to pass
through as before. Ice like glass. also
transmits both heat and light. DR. Suther-
land, in Observations Upon the Icebergs
of Battins Bay, says: - Several
pieces of granite were found deeply i'm
bedded in ice, without any cornmunica-
tons with outside air. These were an sur
rounded with. what might be termed an
atmosphere of water. The explanation of
such an oddly is this: The heat passing
through the ice had been absorbed by
the stones until their temperature had
been raised to a degree sufficient to melt
the ice around them. ie''
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

The Georgia Senate is now in a position
to make itself odious or respected, as it
pleases. If it kills the legislation the peo-
pie imperatively demand, it may expect to
hear something drop at the next election.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
Blankets,

The bargain attractions during this week IN
our Blanket Department are White Wool
Blankets lO4, at Sl50 s., $3.50 IS and 49, so a
pair / 4 -, $3.50, 50, $3.50, Si25 and IS per pair;
I24. sl.i5 -. - and 1870 per pair
Fine Cali ornta Blankets from $50 to so Per
pair
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10

In Chicago some church people have
rung in a spicy change on the old chest
nut OF presenting the minister with a pair
of slippers. At a church fair in which
ing contests were the popular means of
raising money, and the chief prize among
all the prizes was a jackass, to be given
to the most poular minister. 1t was under
stood at the beginning of the contest that
the prize was intended to cast no reflec-
ton upon its recipient; that it was really
an exceptional jackass. one imported from
Jerusalem, and possibly a descendent of
one of his kind who bore one or more of
the prophets on their journeys. The bal
lots were cents apiece. and very heavy
vote was polled.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
Cloak Department.

Ladies' English Cheviot Cloth Jackets. large
dropping sleeves, S5.69, worth $3.50.
Ladies Full Length Jackets OF Chevot or
Melton Cloth, full sleeves, double breasted,
1925 worth s1050.
Ladies' Fine Beaver Cloth Jackets double
breasted. large storm collar, 80 s5, worth $3.50
Ladies Cloth Capes with choice designs Of
applique.