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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
An Unrecorded Fast Run.

The Railroad Club met Tuesday evening
in the usual place, and after short bus
mess session the boys drifted into 'shou"
conversation, says the Missoula Silverite
The recent fast run of the general mana
gers special from Hope TO Missoula was
commented on and the talk of fast runs
became general Several stories were re-
lated, and when the blonde brakeman got
the floor he saw he was expected 10
break the record. And he did
speaking of fast runs" said he, why
that little Montana Union line lays over
every thing ever saw No Dutch clocks
or anything else to hold man down
there. l worked for that road when Bob
Smith was dispatcher, and when he told
the boys to wheel EN- we all knew what
1t meant. One day we were going north
and were delayed in various ways until
we reached Stewart. Bob wired the con
train to get over to Carr
son as quick as God would let
us. We had clear track when we start
ed, and II wasn't long before the telegraph
poles looked like picket fence. The big
gest burst Of speed was reserved for the
home-stretch-from Deer Lodge to CARR
son; eleven miles. We didn't stop at Deer
Lodge, but as we approached that
place the engineer sounded the whistle
as usual-and you may. take my head for
a foot ball If the slow sing in the Gar
rison yards wasn't passed by our train
before that whistle had ceased to soundii
This made the boys look weary. bu.
the "breaky" hadn't finished yet, he CON
tinued:
Well. we put our train away and were
resting ourselves, when we glanced IN
the track and saw a dark streak an
preaching at lightning gait. We were al.
founded for an instant but as IL slowed
up we readily recognized it as the shadow
of the train we had just brought in >
And the boys all rose up, and after
presenting the relator with a reguIarIl,
signed license. the club adjourned.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
BRIGHT BITS.

-She-You mustn't forget that we are
engaged.
He--There's no danger, haven't paid for
the ring yet.-Lhe.
-Bills Little Jest.-"There is somethig
about YOU" remarked Bubberneck Bill, as
he gently removed the travellers money
Det' there is something about you that
like. indianapolis Journal
"A cat" said Tommy, has to be killed
nine times before it's dead"
That's nothing" said the. neighbor's
boy, whose father is on the board of trade,
you just ought to hear about the wheat
crop Chicago Record.
DO YOU believe" said the inquisitive
man, That these poets who write so
exqusitely about the delights of early
Certainly not" replied the sIuggard.
II they had they never would have writ
Star.
-Sanguinary Ambition.-"If was a
great big man." said Bonnie, who was en-
soldier"
What would you want to be a soldier
for, Bennie?" asked the caller.
SOS l could shoot"
what would you shoot?"
Chickens, lions and Indians" promptly
replied Bennie.-Chicago Tribune.
"A Portuguese artifice who was sus-
pected of free thinking was at the point
of death. A Jesuit, who came to confess
him, holding crucitix before his eyes,
Sdlu.
behold the God whom you have so
much offended. DO you recollect him
nowY'
Alas! yes, father" replied the dying
man; 1T was ! who made him. AR.
gonaut.
"A Strong Defense.-"Jedge, yer honor. -
said Tim the Tramper, Il amt guilty o.
doin' that job o. burglary. De evidence is
agin' me, but kin prove a alibi."
Have yousany witnesses'
Nobody but meself," was the reply
But kin t'row de cold white light of in
| telleck over de situation in a way dat'H
| clear me in five minutes
GO ahead.'
! We'll, de testimony shows dat whoever
| done de work got inter de house by fus'
! cuttin' his way wild an ak through de front
door, an then agin through the library
| door"
There's me alibi, jedge, yer honor DO
l look like man that 'ud be tempted by
any sum ter chop dat much wood ?"-
| Washington Star
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
Prayed, and Caught the Mu,s.

Rev. II. d. Fisher could not resist the
temptation to tell a story on a brother
minister, says the Topeka State Journal :
1t was Presiding Elder Still of fba
Methodist church. The good old man Is
dead now, and it can't do any harm TO tell
this story of him.
The early travelling of the elder in
Kansas was not easy. He had a mule
on which he used to ride, and this mule
was not always obedient One dav ~ q
elder and his mule encountered swo 1Ie
len stream Along the edge of the stream
the elder and his mule strayed in hona
OF nndlng a safe crossing. Finally inc
elder found a tree that overhung the
could swing. But the mule couldn't
swing. He could swim, however which
the elder couldn't.
IAN the extra clothing and the Bible
were made into a bundle and tied on
the mules back and the animal led to the
water. He swan safely across, and began
eating grass on the other side
The elder looked at his swinging limb
and, dropping to his knees, prayed fer.
yently that he might make no mistake
and landed safely.
He knelt and thanked the Lord.
But there was a new obstacle. The
mule was having a good time in the
grass and refused to be caught again.
Several well directed efforts flew wide
OF the mark and the good elder was in
desperation. He must keep his appoinr-
ment and he couldn't walk it, There was
but one thing tosdo and the elder did IT,
Down in the damp grass he dropped on
his knees and prayed the Lord 10 HEN
him catch the mule F
This Is the only instance ever heard
or IN which man called on the Lord ~,
help MN catch a mule, and to his dy-
ing DAY the elder firmly believed tho
some time" t4
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
Personal.


-Silas s. Putnam. who has just died in
Boston, was direct descendant Of Israel
Putnam. He was an inventor OF consider
able note.
Mr.. William Dodge. the son OF the
millionaire manufacturer OF Dolgeville,
n Y, is making a tour OF the south on
a bicycle.
Denied membership in the white doc
tors organization at Washington. the col
ored physicians OF the District Of Column
bia have formed a society Of their own.
70 which they have made white practi-
TONERS eligible
Marie Roze. at one time the wife Of
Col. MsplesOn, Of operate repute, has a
school OF music in Paris and her name
is mentioned frequently. and always with
respect, by the music journals Of that
city.
Mrs Fernando Yznaga, formerly a
leader in New York society, now in
South Dakota seeking a divorce, Will, IL
is said, go back to her fathers print fac
tory as designer after her marital bonds
shall have been severed.
Prof. Horwitz, a New York author
has chosen as the basis of a four-act
play the Buchanan murder case. Three
acts or this gruesOme tragedy are said
TO be already written and rehearsed. but
the fourth will not be prepared until the
wife murderer has paid the penalty Of
his crime.
Rev. John G. Gibson. pastor of the
Emanuel Baptist church San Francisco
where the horrible girl murders took place
not very long ago, addressed a throns
IN public hall last Sunday night in de
Tense of himself against his critics. a
hypnoust named Tyndall challenged him
to submit TO mesmeric test of his inno-
cence and the pastor refused. The Incl
cent created excitement.
The famous old "Blue Store in Rox-
bury, Mass, will soon be torn down. Dur
ing colonial times Gen. Warren, il is said
occupied one floor of the old building as
a dwelling. When undergoing repairs n
number OF years ago, one OF the sales
men, Martin +. Curley. found among the
ratters an old military coat with gold
buttons, and one rof the old residents
claimed then that 1t was Gen. Warren's
coat.
1t will interest many of the interior
department clerks" says the Washing
ton Capital, Ito know that Judge Har-
mon, the new Attorney General has a
brother in the patent Office, who is one
OF the best examiners there. In fact, il
was considered that his division had more
clever clerks and examiners I'm il than any
other one division in the Office-that Is.
before two or three of them were trans
ferred to other divisions. Mr. Harmon is
very popular with the important officials
OF his department. and they like to poiny
him out as an instance of what fresh
blood and young blood, as they are so
fond of calling it, can do toward exps,
diting the public business"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30

The scene is the Office Of large business
house, says the Washington Post. ORA
mats personae: Father and son.
Father-Alas, my son, / must tell you
that am ruined, and that before the day
is done you must go to work to make your
own living.
son-work. Make my own living? L?
Why, fatheri
Father-Yes. my son, nothing can save
me. In three months l shah be bank
rupt. sinks into a chair and sobs.)
Son (after a moments refectiOn)-This
Is startling news. l must admit, father:
But you say you have three months
grace Ha, have il (excitedly)! Can you
hold out for three months2
Eather-Hes, but no longer
Son-Enough! l. will save you from
bankruptcy and me from working for
living. Soon you shall know all.
Change Of scene. ParlOr of an uptown
residence. Brilliant lights. Personae:
Son and crOss-eyed heiress.
He (kneeling before her)-Darling, my
love knows no bounds. For your sake
would pause at nothing. hesitate at no
crime, kill the umpire-yes, murder. Do
you know what man in that condition
OF mind is capable of toward the woman
he loves? He would make her lot an end
less dream OF bliss; pillow her upon roses
and scatter her paths with dew-kissed vio-
lets
she-Charles-
He--do you now believe that love you
(winding his arm around her waist, ten
derly)? oh, tell me that you love me in
return; tell me. and name the happy day.
one-1n SIX months.
He-It is an eternity.
She-F'ive, then.
He-Why not say a century,
She-FOur.
He-Ha! Would that my love were like
other mems; then, perhaps, / might re-
strain my impatience to possess you. But
with love like mine
She-Well, then, three.
He-No, make II two and a half. (Coy-
ers her lips with burning kisses) Say il,
darling, two and a half.
She mods assent and falls around his
neck.
Another change of scene. Father and son
at home.
Son-Father, cheer up. ! have made a
terrible sacrifice for your sake. My heart
may break, but you will be saved for l
have sworn to do it, and will keep my
Father lanxiously)-My son, what do you
meanF What have you done? Speak!
Son-I have affianced myself to the
daughter of the ice man.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
The DnNiN Cnne.

Where there is a doubt the defendant
in a criminal case is entitled to the bene-
fl of it. In the Davis case, in which a YER
diet of mot guilty was rendered very
promptly on Friday. the jury, judging from
the fact that the verdict was reached very
quickly, must have been well satisfied of
the defendants innocence or have had a
very great doubt of his guilt under the
law STILL from our view of the law we
cannot help thinking that the jury erred
in it's finding. While public sentiment sus-
tains a man to almost any extent in pro-
tecting the honor of his wife and sanctity
of his home he must be sure that they are
in grave peril before adopting violent
measures for their protection. What the
defendant may have thought is not de-
tense of his act. The law requires that
the extreme danger must have actually
existed. Admitting all that was stated
from the witness stand to be true, it does
not seem that the danger was so imminent
as to justify the taking of human life. We
do not question that the defendant felt
that he was justified in acting as he did.
but was his act such as the law excuses?
That is the question upon which public
sentiment should be based, and it is i'm
portant that public sentiment should be
correct because it is largely responsible
for the crimes of violence that are COM
mitted. Juries respond to public sentiment,
and where crimes of violence are frequent
there is apt to be a lax enforcement of the
law, because human life is not regarded
! with as much sacredness as it should be.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
Prospects for Pro-peri,x.

It has not been very long since the public
prints were fun of reports OF hard times,
the bad business outlook and lack OF con-
fidence in the future. What a change has
taken place. There is no talk now OF hard
times, nor is there any lack Of confidence
IN the business outlook. on the contrary.
the newspapers are filled with reports of
new Industries. the returning prosperity.
the increase in the wages OF wOrkmen. the
steadily growing volume Of business and
the improvement in the prices OF agricuI-
tural and manufactured products. a won
derful Improvement there has been within
the last few months. and that too without
any change in the status OF silver.
one Of the shrewdest business men in
New York says that all the information he
receives from confidential and other
sources and his own observations lead him
to believe that the country has entered
upon period of great prosperity. and
that he Is conident that the period will
be a long one.
Railroad travel is a pretty good indica-
ton OF the condition Of the country from
a business standpoint. Railroad men agree
that travel IS far better than it has been
for long time. on some OF the roads the
increase In travel is so great that they are
not prepared to accommodate it,
The banks also are feeling the better
times. For the last two years. particularly
in New York city. they have had a great
deal more money on hand than they have
known what TO do with. and they have
found great difficulty in making a profit
on their capital Now. however. there is
an active demand for money and loans of
the very. best character are being made.
Many Of the loans are to be used in new
undertakings showing that confidence in
future business conditions has returned.
Most of the manufacturing plants have
abundant orders and are being worked on
full time. The iron manufacturers have
orders for months ahead.
These signs of growing prosperity are
very gratifying. They make the people con-
tented and hopeful and inspire them to
make additional efforts to improve their
material condition. The croakers are get
ting OF their perches because their oc-
cupation is gone. Busy men have no time
10 listen TO them.
Times began 10 improve as soon as the
government made the contract with the
Belmont-Morgan syndicate by which the
reserve gold in the treasury was brought up
TO 10000, 90 and assurances given that
exports OF gold would be prevented until
October next when our exports will be suf-
hcient to cause gold to be imported And
the prospect is that our exports will be
large. Our crops promise to be
abundant and the demand for them is GER
tain to be unusually great With steadily
Increasing prosperity the silver craze will
disappear and the growth and development
of the country, particularly the south, will
be more rapid than in any previous period
of the country's history. The time may
not be distant when the deal which the
government made with Messrs. Belmont
and Morgan and which was so severely
criticised by the republicans, populists and
will be admitted to be one of the
wisest and acts of this or any other admin
istration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Matter of wages.
From the Tattnan (Ga) Journal Dem.

L AOAl tic AdllHdil NGd.) (Dem.) J.
The Augusta Chronicle presented a pitt
able spectacle when called on by the Sa-
Vannah Morning News to give facts to
substantiate its assertion that wages are
less than for many years. Cornered and
confused the Chronicle refers to the labor
er on the farm. Many thousands of dol
lars are paid out each week in Augusta
TO employees in stores, In factories, on the
streets and in railroad and in various
other departments, yet the Chronicle does
not refer to the wages of a bookkeeper
or salesman, collector or clerk or man
ager, superintendent, policeman, fireman,
railroad conductor or motorman, but re-
fers to the farm hand only. We are pre-
pared to furnish proof that wages, as a
rule, have not been reduced. Will the
Chronicle state why it left the city limits
within which are hundreds of employees
and traversed the country for proof?
Ut appears that the Chronicle not only
confined itself to farm labor, but quoted in
It's assertion the prices paid for the very
lowest class of farm labor. The report
OF the Senate committee on prices and
wages, issued in 1898. and signed by Sena-
tors Jones and Harris, among others
shows that the average daily wages of
the laborer In the United States. considered
as a whole, was $l.25 in 1890, 81. l6 in 1880
W cents in 1860 and 81 cents in 1900
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30

At Pottsville. Pa, a diamond farm has
been started. 1t was without the consent
of the owner, however. His little daugh-
ter planted a pair of diamond ear rings
and one or two diamond pins belonging to
her mother. in order that she might see
them grow, as she explained. The father
and the hired man have dug all over more
than half an acre in an effort to recover
the seed diamonds, but have failed to
find them. The father has about come to
the conclusion that he will have to wait
for them to sprout.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
The south Carolina Compnirn

It is clear that in Edgeheld. S.
c., free speech is not permitted. Are
there other parts of the state in which
free speech is prohibited. 1t will soon
become apparent whether there is or not.
The campaign for delegates to the con-
stitutional convention has already begun,
and Col. Dargan and others of his way
of thinking will seek opportunities, no
doubt, to express their views In Edge,
field the officers of the law, according to
the reports, united with the mob to pre-
vent Col. Dargan from making a speech.
That is a state of affairs that every South
Carolinian who has the least particle of
state pride must deeply regret. The fut-
ure of state in which the authorities
join the mob to enforce mob law cannot
be very promising.
And what have the state authorities
done to correct such abuses as that at
Edgeield? Has any member of the mol
been arrested. or has any one of the Off
GERS of the law that encouraged and abet-
ted the mob been called to account?
1t really looks as if what was done al
Edgefield has the approval of those who
now guide the destinies of the state, and
that they intend to encourage such mol
violence in order to make certain theil
control of the constitutional convention
South Carolina cannot prosper very
greatly if mohs are permitted to suppress.
free speech within her borders. The time
must come when even those who look
with approval upon such mob rule will
regret the encouragement they gave it, il
they have the least regard for their state
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
Music In church.

A conscientious. hard-headed Scotchman
once observed that he did not think il
proper TO worship God with "a kist O.
whistles" He was opposed 10 the music
of the organ in divine services. In this
country. at least up 10 withiR few years.
there has been in certain religious denOmi-
nations strong prejudice against the
chest OF whistles in church. An eminent
and eloquent Presbyterian divine of South
Carolina, who is well known and loved on
this side of the Savannah river, will not
permit Of Instrumental music at any Of
his services. He objects TO praise by ma
chinery The human voice. he holds. makes
the most delightful music for the worship
Of God. And a great many Presbyterians
are. or rather have been. of his way Of
thinking. The United Presbyterian and Re
formed Presbyterian denominations have.
as organizations. been strongly opposed to
instrumental music in church. But there
appears lately TO have been a decided
change OF sentiment with regard TO the
matter. at least in so far as the United
Presbyterian church is concerned. At the
recent general assembly Of that body the
question of church music came up for con-
sideration. and there was in the whole as
sembly but one delegate who openly op-
posed the use of the organ as an aid to
church choirs. on previous occasions there
had never been a lack of professors against
the organ. The outcome OF the assembly's
consideration OF the question is that any
congregation of that denomination which
may desire and can afford it, can have or
gan music. The Independent. New York
religious magazine. regards the victory of
the organ as marking a step towards
Christian union.
II cannot be successfully disputed that
good music adds to the attractiveness of
religious services; and if the argument of
some of the opponents Of instrumental
music in church be granted-that
the music is all sound, and no
soul-still the fact that the power of
music draws people into refining the asso-
Citations of the church, and under the sound
of awakening truths from the pulpit, would
remain. That this is true, and is becoming
universally recognized is shown by the
great and increasing improvement of
church music by the adoption of various
musical instruments in the churches.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
Grent Gnthering of ChrI.tInr

The second international conference OF
the Epworth League societies which be-
gan at Chattanooga on Thursday, and
ended last night. brought together in that
city many thousands of young Christians.
Early in July the Christian Endeavor So
cieties will hold convention in Boston,
and it is expected that fully twenty thou
sand young Christians from all parts of
this country, and from other countries,
will assemble in that city.
The purpose of both conventions is, from
every standpoint, commendable. Their ten
dency is in the direction of
universal brotherhood. The influences
that go out from them are of a
character to lessen the importance of
creeds and doctrines in spreading Christi
anity and to draw into closer relationship
the adherents of the various Christian de-
nominations. The tendency of the times
is to hold in lesser regard the lines which
separate denominations and to strengthen
the ties which bind together Christians.
without regard to the religious sect to
which they belong.
But there is a question in connection with
these great and growing religious associa-
tions which is worthy of very careful con-
sideration. 1t is this: Do these associations
draw attention away from the home mis-
sionary work in which each congregation
is, to a greater or less extent, engaged ?
This home missionary work is of vast i'm
portance, not only to the congregations
which perform in it, but also to those who
are reached and brought into the church by
means of it. Nothing so stimulates Christ
ians and contributes to their religious
growth as the work of leading others
to higher and better life. Does this move
ment in the direction of great religious or
ganizations like the Christian Endeavor
society lessen the interest in individual ef-
fort in behalf of religion? This question
may never have arrested the attention of
thousands of those who are earnest and
consistent members of the Christian En-
deavor Society. Still, it is an important one
and may be discussed at the approaching
convention in Boston.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
Honest Money the War Cry.
From the New York Herald NndN.

The war cry of the Kentucky democracy
is Enthusiastically for honest money, every
dollar of which shall be worth as much as
a gold dollar is now. Silverites will get no
sympathy from these democrats, who are
following the lead of Senator Lindsay and
secretary Carlisle, not the will-o'- the-wisp
silver theories of Senator Blackburn. who
will probably be relegated to private life
The result of such multiplying and Wa
teloo-like victories for sound money will
almost certainly be to throw the silver
issue out of the next political campaign.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30

The mo fence" election, to be held on
July 8, is matter of great Importance
to this city and county. The plans and
purposes of the proposed law have been
so often explained and commented upon
that they are well understood. The day
of the election is now close at hand. hence
every friend of health and progress should
make personal efforts toward bringing
out full vote in favor of the mo fence
law.