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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
PERSONAL.

sam" Jones has become one OF the
editors Of the Tennessee Methodist
Alma-Tadema is TO follow in Du Mau-
volume.
Queen Victoria loves cold weather and
has been going about iu the keen NOvem-
Der days In an open carriage
a dealer on F Street Washington, gives
photographs Of William Mckinley with
every plug Of certain brand OF tobacco
The Prince and Princess OF Wales call
one another Berthe and "AliN.' the
present car is 'Nicky' among his
a portrait OF Monsignor satolli. by A.
Mueller Try, the Swiss artist is soon TO
pc placed IN the Corcoran art gallery at
Washington
The Prince OF Wales is very nice about
Christmas presents. He sends pretty
things 10 all his old friends and even to
acquaintance.
Misses Judson and Lamson, of wealthy
Cleveland, o., families. the former the
daughter OF judge have joined the Sal
walton Army, and are living in the army
barracks in that city.
Seventy-two children. Grandchildren and
golden wedding Of Mr. ana Mrs Carl
Schultz in Seigel. Chippewa county, Wis
consin, the other day.
Henry Keeney, the Hartford millionaire
who died recently, in 1872 invested $3.50 in
a fire insurance company. Since then the
investment has paid Sl24, S4 in cash diVi-
denus ana IS now worth more than Ssu,UDO
There are three Philadelphians equally
admirable for age and eminence-Rev. Dr.
Furness, who is 81 and the oldest living
graduate Of Harvard; Frederick Fraley,
the banker, who is 80, and John Sartain
father of mezzotint engraving in Amer
lea, who is S..
A Woodstock. Me-, dispatch to the Lew
iston Journal says: Ezra stephens,
the originator of the dancing turkey,
educator of bears, and manipulation of
translated crocodiles and sacred cattle"
and well known through this section as
the P. T. Barnum of Maine, has gone out
of the show business and taken to fox
hunting just for fun.
On Dec. 3 the 30Oth anniversary of the
birth of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
will be observed by order of the en-
peror as a public religious holiday
throughout Protestant Germany. In the
Lutheran states of Germany the day has
been observed for over fifty years, through
the influence of the GustaV-Adolph-Stig
a society for the spread of evangelical
doctrines
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05

A writer on hens tells the following
story in the New York Press: l am re-
minded of a trick played by a small boy
on some stately old hens, who stepped
haughtily around his fathers yard, as if
they merely allowed the family to live
there for their convenience. He soaked
some bread crumbs in whisky and scat
tered them literally in the chicken yard.
Now, never knew hen who would re-
fuse to eat anything that was thrown to
her, from cold roast to a diamond ring.
So very soon the bread crumbs had van
ished and in a short time the jolliest
party of old hens who ever got a jag on,
were clucking and cawking around tan
glefooted beyond the widest experience
of unfeathered bipeds. For, being by ma
ture a little cross-eyed in their toes, they
stepped on their own feet, and got in their
own way, and all the while cackled and
jeered at each other for being drunk.
One old rooster in particular was sight
for gods and man. He leaned with limp,
tall and uncertain head. in a suggestivefy
familiar attitude, against the gate post,
blinking his stupid little eyes, and trying
in maudlin way to crow, with but in
different success.
I'll wager the whole lot got up with a
headache next morning, and went right
off to sign a pledge.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
Pension Frauds.

/ II Is with a good deal OF satisfaction
apparently that the President states in hi.
message that the present commissioner
/ Of pensions has shown Beyond a shadow
/ Of a doubt that the charge that the Demo
I cratic party has frequently made. namely
that the pension roll contains the names
Of large number Of fraudulent pension
ers. is well founded. For the purpose OF
making political capital the Republican
party has always denied this charge. They
cannot do so any longer with any degree
OF decency. The proof that has been
obtained Of the frauds is overwhelming.
II the whole truth could be obtained il
would doubtless appear that millions Of
dollars have been paid out Of the treas
ury on fraudulent pension claims.
The Republican party increased the pen
sion charge enormously after fair-minded
men believed that the pension burden had
become as large as 1t reasonably ought to
be. and there is good reason for be-
ieving that its main purpose for doing
so was the desire to win the favor of the
union veterans. What it sought TO do was
to make itself popular with the ex-soIdier
element, and this it was willing to do at
the expense Of the people.
1t is pretty certain that If the re-
publicans should get control Of the gov
eminent again, they would pass a service
pension BILL and thus increase the annual
pension charge many millions Of dollars.
They have threatened to pass such a bill.
and it is safe to say that a bill Of that
kind is on their programme
When it is remembered that Gen. Gar
field, at the time he was a member Of the
House, twenty years ago, said that the
high-water mark in the matter of pen
sions had probably been reached, it be-
comes evident that he did not know much
of the purposes of the party of which he
was a conspicuous member. The pension
charge at that time was only $4,000 600.
The amount paid out in pensions dur
ing the last fiscal year was about S14O.-
100000.
The report Of the commissioner of pen
sions shows that during the six years
from lSSs to 1894 the number Of pensioners
was doubled. If the Republican party had
remained in power it would have bank
rupted the nation with its sugar bounty
and pensions. In its eagerness to make
itself popular and retain control of the
government it would have enacted almost
any kind of legislation.
The Democratic party is striving to put
the country on a sound financial basis.
and it viii do it If given the chance. If
the republicans are put into power a serv-
Ice pension bill win be passed in all
probability. and many millions Of dollars
will be added to the annual pension charge.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
savannah's Cotton Reoeints.

The cotton receipts of this port have
increased very considerably within the
last three or four days. For two weeks
prior to last Saturday there was a very
marked falling off in the receipts, as com
pared with those of last year. 1t was
we'll understood that great deal of cot
ton that should have come to Savannah
was going to Charleston and other ports.
for the reason that the ocean freight rate
was considerably lower than at this port
Several reasons were given why the rate
at Charleston was lower than here, the
chief one being that Charleston had char
tered a number of steamers when they
could be had for much less than they could
be had a later date.
This reason. while a true one, was not
wholly satisfactory. There was a quite
general feeling that the interests of this
port should have been more carefully
guarded by those whose interest it is to
protect it, that with our advantages and
our facilities for handling cotton we
should not permit any cotton from our
territory to go to another port
There is an impression among the cotton
men that our railroads do not deal with
them as literally as the railroads leading
to rival ports deal with the cotton men at
those ports. Certain charges of railroads
are burden at this port which. it is
claimed, are not imposed by railroads at
rival ports. On the other hand. it is
claimed by the railroads that they cannot
bring the cotton here if lower ocean rates
are offered at competing ports.
Just what the trouble is we cannot say
What we do know is that a good deal of
cotton has gone to other ports this wear
that ought to have come to this port. and
would have come here if the conditions
had been as favorable for bringing il here
as they were for taking it elsewhere. In
view of the fact that the railroads and
the ship-brokers are mutually interested
in having as much cotton as possible
brought here it would seem as if they
would get together and find out what the
obstacles are that prevent cotton from
coming here as freely as it should. and
take steps to remove them as quickly as
possible. Indeed, no such obstacles should
have been permitted for single day. II
concessions and sacrifices are necessary
there should be no hesitation in makina
them, because. if business once gets out
of its natural channel it is not always an
easy matter to get it back again.
The fact that our cotton receipts are
again getting toward the normal mark in
dictates that the obstacles that prevented
cotton from coming here freely during tn,
last two weeks of November are less eff
fective than they were. They should no
be allowed to exist at all. Those who hav,
the power to remove them should remov,
| them at once.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05

King Frederick William " of Prussia
on the occasion of a court ball was stand
ing near the middle of the dance hall in
conversation with an exceedingly thin am
bassador. In the haste and excitement of
danced with his partner between the
monarch and the person whom he was adj
dressing, and then seeing what he had
done he began to stammer abject apolo-
gies and explanations. "Oh, that was
nothing" replied the king with a hearty
laugh, "a hussar must go without fear
through thick and thinn' A whimsical
Of the slender ambassador accompanied
this answer, and the hussar felt himself
not only pardoned but invited to share in
the kings laugh. ~
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
An AZ Useful in Accidents.

A Maine Central conductor tells a story
which shows how queer 1t is that it should
cost a railroad less to kill passenger in
an accident than to MAIN one says the
Lewiston Journal. very inquisitive pas
senger one day began asking the brake
that he saw. The employee answered cour-
teOusly and explained everything until the
conversation began to weary him. What
is that AK for?' suddenly asked the pas
senger, pointing to an implement fastened
to the end of the car, with the words
over it, For accident only" What do
you want Of an ak in case of accident ?'
why. that" replied the brakeman, lis
what we use to kill the wounded ones
with. We don't have to pay as much for
dead people as for live ones so when
there's an accident, that ak saves money!
Yes, / see,' replied the inquisitive man
demurely, and then he began to ponder so
seriously on the risks he was taking that
he didn't ask any more questions
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
The Cure for DiphtheriA.

It is announced in our dispatches this
morning that arrangements are being
made By well known chemists Of Detroit
TO manufacture in that city antitoxine. the
/ remedy for diphtheria. II is already being
manufactured in New York and New Or
leans and Il is probable that II will soon
be manufactured in nearly every other
large city Of the country.
In the opinion of eminent physicians
antitoxine. OF blood serum. is not only
positive remedy for diphtheria, but it is
the basis Of a new treatment OF that dis
ease that viii save the lives Of thousands
. CT children every year. When the new
remedy was first announced there was a
/ great deal Of doubt as to whether it would
I do what was claimed for it, but the ex-
I periments that have been made in the hos
pitfalls OF this country and Europe leave no
room for doubt that it is as valuable in
curing diphtheria as vaccination is in
preventing smallpox.
Comparatively few people realize how
great a scourge diphtheria is. and yet in
this country and Europe its victims num-
Der tens Of thousands every year. Ac-
cording TO the cesus Of 1850, the number
of deaths in this country from il that year
was 5Sl43. If in an epidemic Of cholera or
yellow fever as many persons as that
should die OF the disease the whole coun-
try would be in a panic. 1t is stated that
the annual mortality in France from
diphtheria is 80. 900, and in Austria 20, Co.,
This year there has been an outbreak
of the disease in a large number of the
cities of this country. and that is one of
the reasons there is so much activity in
the preparations for the manufacture of
the new remedy. But no mistake is likely
TO be made in preparing to put it upon the
market. 1t has been thoroughly tested.
An eminent New York physician, who
spent considerable time in the hospitals of
Berlin recently, observing its effect upon
those who were treated with it, is en-
thusiastic in its praise
In the childrens' hospital in Paris by
the use of the antitoxine the death rate
from diphtheria has been reduced from
80 to 2il5 per cent, in the Trousseau hos
pital Of the same city the death rate has
been reduced from 60 to "A per cent, and
in hospitals in Berlin even better results
have been obtained. Those treated as
soon as the symptoms of the disease were
observed recovered in nearly every in
stance. OF those treated the second or
third day after the appearance of the dis
ease more than two-thirds were saved.
and of those treated on the fourth day a
less percentage was saved, while of those
treated on the fifth day only about half
recovered. If the patients are treated
promptly they nearly always recover and
their chances of recovering decrease in
proportion to the delay in applying the
treatment.
That the antitoxine is a great discovery
there is no doubt. and that its discoverer.
Prof. Behring of Berlin, a pupil of Prof
Koch, will rank with Jenner and Harvey
in the medical world appears to be quite
generally admitted by those who have
given the new remedy the attention it
deserves.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
Pound the Funeral was for Himself.


Two drummers had scraped an acquain-
lance IN a train. says the Chicago Times.
B9th had told Of experiences. when one
Did you ever attend your own fun
Why. no." replied the other.
Well have II happened this way:
was IN Buffalo three years ago and tele-
graphed my firm in Chicago that I would
take a certain train for home that night.
I.lchlly Tor me, 1 changed my plans at
the last moment and did not leave, some
business having cropped out that would
require my presence there for a few more
JAYS, ana teiegraphed my firm accord
mgly. That train was smashed UP in
eollslosn, ana large number Of persons
Il arrived ar my home four DAYS later.
Just as funeral procession was leaving
H. FOR a moment was too astonished 10
move, but finally mustered up sufficient
courage TO ask bystander whose fun
eral it was. What was my Amusement to
learn mat II was my own. According TO
my informant had been brought home
Two days previously, crushed and unrec-
ognizable, out OF the wreck.
ne funeral cortege had got some dis
lance away before 1 had recovered sufi-
GENTLY 10 secure a conveyance and go IN
pursuit Not wishing to create a scene in
the street, determined 10 wait until the
church was reached. I therefore fell into
line and joined my own funeral
Arrived at the church the coffin was
hfted out and carried up the aisle, and
the burial service was just about to begin
when l stepped TO the chancel. My ap
pearance created an instant panic, every
body tum bling over themselves to get out
OF the edifce. / was left alone with the
officiating clergyman.
In a few moments, however, my
friends and relations began to come back
into the church. I called to them and
told them that far from being dead I was
never more alive Then explanations en-
sued. 1t appeared that my second tele-
gram had never been received, and be-
lieving me to be in the wreck, they had
picked out the most likely looking corpse
a mine
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
A Caaa of Exoeasive Previonsneaa.

A certain young French nobleman who
arrived in Washington day or two ago
left in a hurry for his own shores, says
the Washington Post, giving as his reason
to the clerk of the uptown hotel where he
stopped that he could not enjoy himself in
a country whose language he did not I'M
derstand. He came expecting to remain
several weeks, and there is a romance con-
nected with his abrupt departure.
1t seems that two summers ago he met
a fair young American girl in Paris, and
he fell in love with her speedily, or with
the fortune she was reputed to possess.
At all events, the affair seemed to progress
smoothly, and there was every prospect
of a union 1t was to claim the hand of
the young lady that brought the gentle
man to Washington, and on the day he
landed he sent back a cablegram to his
mother, saying: "All is well; am very
happy" The very next day he cabled
Everything broken Off Return at once"
What sudden cloud obscured his visions
of bliss none except the parties to the
episode know. Whether fate, in the shape
of a stern father, interposed to break
the match is only for conjecture. Or il
may be that the young aristocrat found at
the last moment that satisfactory mar
riage settlements could not be made. At
any rate, he vanished, and some American
girl will be all the happier for getting an
American husband.
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cago day or two ago that not soil
tary farm in Texas is now mortgaged."
Explaining his meaning, he said that
wherever farm was still under mort
gage the owner had money enough to lift
the mortgage if he cared to do so. 1t is
likely that the railroad man permitted his
enthusiasm for Texas to get the better of
him, but it is probably true that
the majority of the white owners
of mortgaged farms in Texas
and in Georgia also. for that
matter-are at present, or will shortly be
able TO discharge their obligations.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05

The GreenviIle Is. c. News calls at
tention to the fact that the supreme
court of South Carolina finds itself in an
uncomfortable position, with Senator But
ler's suit on one hand and the constitu-
tonal convention on the other. If the
court should decide that Senator Butler is
correct in his allegation that the election
laws are unconstitutional. lit would jeo-
pardize the claims of b. r. Tillman, rs
boss and creator, to a seat in the Senate"
On the other hand, if it were to decide that
the election laws are constitutional and
valid it would contradict Gov. TillInan's
assertions in demanding a constitutional
convention and by inference rule such a
convention unnecessary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
How Kolb is Remembered.
From Memphis Commercial Appeal Dem)

RUDE Kolb has gone, he has sneaked,
he has skipped out, he has absquatulated.
In the language OF q deceased but dis
'tinguished Dago, "Abiit, evasit, excessit,
erupit." AS a last years buzzards nest,
as the faint but cifngsome perfume of a
long-vanished polecat, as the dying echo
of a hideous sound, the fading memory
of q wicked dream or the lingering taste
Alabama statesman that was, but is not.
With one final spluttering protest he has
passed. In the dim and fading twilight
worldweary band awaits his coming with
melancholy expectation. A pageant of
grimy and bedraggled whiskers glooms
darkly for a moment against the dim hori-
zon, and then the sad procession fades
from mortal eye and assimilates with the
darkness. Waite, Lewelling, Kolb, John
Henry and he that was governor OF Ten
nessee, but whose name escapes us, have
all gone, and the places that knew them
shall know them no more forever.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05

Carolina legislature to take from the gov
ernor the power to pardon murderers, and
leave the fate of the murderers with the
court solely, recommendation to mercy
TO mitigate the punishment to imprison-
ment for life. 1t has been the custom
in South Carolina, whether it was strictly
within the written law or not, for the gov
ernor to mitigate a murderer's punish
ment only upon the recommendation OF
the court. But Gov. Tillman set precedent
aside and permitted one murderer recon-
mended by the court to his mercy to be
hanged, and pardoned another murderer
who had not even been recommended to
his mercy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
She Didn't Know II All.

From the Lewiston MED Journal.
She read Sanscrit
And knew Pancrit,
Ancient Persian
Was diversion:
But she used to think that Maine
Was a river in Lorraine,
That the Mississippi ran
Through Vermont and Yucatan,
And that Christopher Columbus was the
King of Michigan
All foreign nationalities
And realms and principalities,
With no trace of indecision
She could name with great precision
But she used to think Nebraska
Was a river in Alaska
And she searched for Philadelphia on a
map of Madagascar.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
No ForestallinR.

While he stood in a doorway on Wood
ward avenue. says the Detroit Free Press,
glancing over the headings in his news
paper as he waited for the car, a man
who had been braced against the lamp
post for the last half hour softly slid up to
him and queried:
Anything in the paper about the times
growing better?'
Yes, few lines"
Money easier?
Yes
industrial enterprises starting up?'
Yes"
Healthier tone to the real estate mar
ket, and good stocks have an upward ten
dency?"
YES, that's about the way of it,"
I'm fact, continued the interrogation,
next year Will witness a complete revival
in all lines and put us at the head AGAIN."
'I hope So"
80 do 1. Wouldn't it be a good business
move on your part to forestall affairs?'
How do you mean?
why. gimme 10 cents now, instead of
quarter next year"
Moo. 1 don't like the PLAN" said the
man with the paper, after a moments
thought. I've got something better than
that"
What is it?''
"Ten orr was the blunt reply, as he
stepped out and swung aboard the car
II don't like his business methods" said
the forestaller as he gazed after the car
Hes Off. my 10 is OFF. and the deal is off.
That throws me off. That's what a Teller
gifts fur takin up straight business instead
of sticking to the regular programme.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05

1t appears that the republicans and some
of the other Observation-Disclosures elements
in congress are preparing to spend as
much of their time as possible during the
short session in making attacks upon the
administration. Half a dozen or more
calls upon the President for information
with regard to foreign affairs, bonds, etc,
have already been made. Very few OF
these calls, it is safe to say, were made
with the end in view of aiding the public
service. Henry Cabot Lodge, William AL.
fred PETER and their likes would never
be guilty of aiding the public service dur.
ing democratic administration. They
merely wish to howl and desire to how
officially. hence the calls for information
to furnish an excuse for bowling.