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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21
Prosressiveness Of Pension Charges.


Pensions seem 20 BE- the one item o.
state and government Obligations that de-
les accurate calculation. Years and years
ego. when James q. Garfield was a CON
gressman. il was Thought by him that gov
eminent pensions had about reached high
water mark Yet the sum Of pension pay
ments AZ that time was "a small matter In
comparison with the payments Of last
year And tho top notch has not s. re- Doc. %
reached. ar Commissioner Loc1rcn, in
his recent report thinks that Gin the
year 1885, thirty years after the close Of
the war. the pension RON must in the
course Of nature reach its highest limit
in numbers and thereafter begin 20 de-
crease"
il is TO De hoped that Commissioner
Lochren is correct. But the decrease must
actually set ia before people viii believe
in b. Pension rolls appear 70 move like
revolutions forward always. Not only is
this true Of the federal rolls. but also OF
the state rolls. Maine. for instance IS
state which apparently should not De
much burdeued with pensions. seeing that
her old soldiers have the federal pensions
on their side Nevertheless. Maine has
pretty considerable pension list, and II
keeps growing from year to year Sew
eral years ago the appropriation was $780,
00o. then it was ,raised TO 5000. ana TO
S6j.0o0 ana last year TO $4,000 And now
the governor OF the state says a consid-
cradle increase must be made in the next
appropriation. else many meritorious calls
must be denied
North Carolina pensions her soldier vet
Grams. But she has never been able to call
culate the size the pension payments will
grow TO. Year before last the payments
amounted to 10000. Last year they went
mp 10y 5000. and for the current year the
increase viii De probably as large. Missis-
sippi and Louisiana too. have watched
their pension payments grow out Of and
beyond their calculations. And in our
own state we shall probably see the same
kind of thing. The last Legislature appro-
prlatci $4,000 for pensions under the new
pension law. That sum viii provide for
only about 900 veterans. when there are
probably more than 5000 who under the
law. would Doe entitled to pensions upon
proper application. The result must bc
growing pension list for years TO come.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21
BRIGHT BITS.

DO not fancy that belle has surren-
dercd every time she shows a white
Standardization News.
Landlord-Tm afraid I'll have to raise
your rent.
Tenant wish you would. I'm sure l
can't raise it.-Truth.
1t would be so much wiser if the fast
young man would take to his head be
fore he finds it necessary 10 take to his
feet-GalVestOn News.
Actual or Corrected.-Elsie-Sh says
she is %
EetheI-Then she must have deducted
her time allowance.-Puek.
Patient-Doctor, 1 want a sure cure
for sOmnambulism.
Doctor-Try insomnia Two dollars,
please.-Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. knervz rang the bell for the domes-
tic. "Norah.i she said, when the Kitchen
self after this. The doctor says ! must
take more exercise. "-ChicGgO Tribune
Debtor Injecting creditor i'm street,
clad to see you, Mr.. A.! tOferlng his
snuff box Have pinch?'
Creditor-Ihanks, but let us hrst settle
that bill You escaped the other day while
1 was sneeZing.-Fliegendo Batter.
He bought him a new waste basket
That would hold a bushel or so,
For he knew they soon would begin TO
come in
The poems on beautiful snow.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Nictimized-"If I live long enough" he
said, moodily. Il hope IN get over being
a natural mark for any buncO steerer that
happens to be loose"
Whats the matter?"
81 concluded I'd have to economic. so
I sent 80 cents to a man who said that was
little money 90 a long way
And what did he tell you?'
He simply wrote Send cents by eX-
press TO san Francisco. WASHINGTON
Star.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21

Judge Kicks. against whom impeach-
ment proceedings may be brought in the
House, presides over the federal district
court for the northern district of Ohio.
When the Ann Arbor railroad strike began
and an attempt was made to extend the
strike from the Ann Arbor road to the
Lake Shore road, Judge Kicks issued an
Injunction against the officers of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
restraining them from carrying out their
plans of a boycott This injunction, it is
believed was the first of the kind ever
issued and it caused considerable COM
motion in the labor world. The judges
remarkable order aroused the antagonism
of the labor unions of Ohio, and they pro-
ceeded to look up his record They
found enough to induce the House judici-
ary committee to report in favor of his
Impeachment. The complaint, made by
the Central Labor Union of Cleveland,
charges that Kicks, while a clerk of the
federal court. misappropriated fees in a
certain case amounting to $500, which
he ought to have turned over TO the gov
eminent. and that on his accession to the
bench he approved his own accounts as
clerk of the same court. There are other
specifications in the complaint, but these
are the main ones.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21
No Wonder Crisp is Sick.
From the New York World DemD.

The Illness of Speaker Crisp is to be
regretted, but it is not to be wondered
the country has been brought as the re-
suit of congressional Incompetence is
it a wonder that any congress man who
SICK The painful fact IN The Who'll III
uatiOn is the circumstance that while
every intelligent citizen outside of con-
sii15r,,ltiai ~ az ,ou NJ
necessity of a prompt application of those
remedies which legislation alone can pro-
vide, congress seems to be as Indifferent
as ii is incompetent and to have settled
down to a conviction that the end of the
session is all that it has to look forward
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21

savannah. beautiful Savannah
City of fair and d0wery fame,
Hast thou no bay wreath, or immortel
To twne around the gentle name
To our hearts SO dear2 No memorial
That may to all the world proclaim
Exalted love for thine Oglethorpe.
From whom thy birth and glory came?
Tho hearts may shrine sweet affection
Memories that have halloWed been
While holy love with sure embalming
stu keeps forever bright and green:
Grand deeds by scUlptured stone recorded
Were greater tribute vet, I ween
Then rear the Lofty pile. Savannah.
He vast thy friend when sore thy need
Inscribe upon the stone enduring.
in the ages Yet unborn, all NAV read
The name of our honOre1 Oglethorpe
w hlle deafness fame claims noDler meeC
Thus would grateful hearts commemorat f.
y Christians love, patriots deed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21

1t is alleged that Joshua Marvn. the
new republican governor of Delaware.
cannot read. or write anything more than
his name. Nevertheless. he is good
business man, and has accumulated for
tune of $l5O000. It is extraordinary that
an old state like Delaware in which
the percentage of tIiteracy is very low.
and where higher education is esteemed
and fostered. should have elected an i'll
literate man TO the governorship. Never
theless Mr.. MarviTs election is a tribute
to what is commonly called horse sense. 90
or common scnse-the best Of all sense.
Book learning" does not produce brains,
it merely polishes them. Ii is evident from
Mr. MarviTs success in life, that he is a
man Of native ability; hence his lack Of
education Will not hinder, but merely
handicap him in the performance of
his duties as governor. At the same time.
it is remarkable that "a man with the
ambition and ability to accumulate a
fortune and to manage successfully a po-
litical campaign, should not acquire the
COMMON accomplishments Of reading and
writing.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21
Inherent Cupidity" of Cotton Planters
From the Baltimore News (DemD

Efforts to reduce cotton acreage and
thereby advance prices are liable to nuI-
lily themselves, because of the inherent
cupidity which leads planter 10 put in
his usual crop. or perhaps a little more,
that he may slyly reap an extra advantage
from the curtailment which he assumes
everybody but himself win practice Il
is only when the crop begins to move
and the abundant supply is indicated
by the drooping price that he realizes
the delusion he has practiced on himself
in unconscious concert with thousands of
other planters. Attempts to unite a mil
lion planters upon any scheme for the
manipulation Of the cotton crop is as flu
rope of sand. An equal amount of EN- rrgy
directed toward demonstrating the ben
etits OF diversified crops and cash dealings
would show far greater progress in the
solution of the so-caled cotton prob
lem -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21

once more the perennial Russell \. Alger
boom and barrel loom into in view in each
others company Gen. Algcr, who has
been the favorite son of Michigan" for
the last thirty years or so, dined with ex-
Senator 7. c. Plat. ex-senator Warner
Miller. J. Sloat Fassett and other republic
can bosses, in New York a few nights ago
The next the lobby of the Fifth ave
nue. hotel. the republican hang-out, was
thronged with politicians discussing what
the dinner meant. Their conclusion seems
to have been that it meant an Alger boom
for the republican presidential nomina-
ton It may be that the old general will
achieve his ambition yet. We have re-
Gently seen in this state an Illustration Of
the truth that keeping everlasungly et
it" viii eventually win for the runner
after office.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21

a Chicago lecturer some days ago as
serted that nails have become so cheap
that If a carpenter drops one 1t is cheaper
for him to use another than to stop to pick
it up. The Iron Age makes this careful
calculation to prove that the lecturer was
correct. THE carpenters time being
worth 30 cents an hour the dropped nail
would cost him 0OS3 of a cent If he took
ten seconds picking it up. SN-penny nails
cost 1.55 cents per pound of 200. there
fore each nail costs 0.oO71 Al this rate the
carpenter could better afford to let the nail
lie than TO spend even one second recover
ing it," The illustration is clever. in so
far as it goes TO show how cheap nails
really are. But lecturers are advised
against the use of this or similar illus.
trations, because if contractors find they
are paying carpenters a rate at which it is
cheaper to waste nails than time. they
may feel constrained to even things up a
little by reduction of wages.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21

Senator Hin has been attending some
more Washington dinners, ana accept
ing Invitations 10 others. Since dining
with the President DE has put his knees
under the mahogany of both Secretary
Lamont and Editor John r. Mclean
of Cincinnati. and he viii shortly dine
with Secretary Carlisle. Whether or not
there is politics in an Of this is an open
question; but there seems to DE no room
Tor question that the senator is revising
his social policy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21
CURRENT CoMmENr.
What Free Coinage Would Amount To.
From the Macon (GaJ Telegraph.

What this free coinage argument
amounts to, therefore, is about this
that with free coinage the wages Of labor
would bug less than they buy now. man
ufactures would have more prote etion
than they now enjoy. and producers of
eXportable articles would have more diff
ficulty I'm selling to their foreign custom
ers than they have now.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21

Recently the House passed. without de-
bate. and with only forty-seven members
voting. q bin to practically abolish the
death penalty for crimes hitherto con-
sIdereI capital. Within the jurisdiction Of
the federal government. The measure ex-
plic.tly provides for the abolition Of the
death penalty for thirty odd causes enum-
Grated Do the ezisr.ng federal statutes.
ana limits RS application % cases OF muir
der and rape. and desertion and mutiny
10 the forts Of the United States and on
the hieh seas. The TWO last named cases,
Of course. apply only 70 soldiers and sail
ors. III the paragraph retaining death as
the penalty for murder and rape it is es-
peclally provided that the jury may nit
ieate the sentence by adding 10 the YER
dict Of guilty. without capital punish
ment" which qualification shall make the
sentence imprisonment at hard labor for
life
The bin was drawn by Congressman
Curtis Of New York and its passage by
the House is one fruit Of nearly thirty
years Of labor by him. Gen. Curtis began
his missionary work against capital pun
ishment while he was a soldier in the
Army Of the Potomac. shortly after the
battle Of Bull Run A private in a bri-
gade camped near that 10 which his reg
iment belonged. was hanged for what the
soldiers considered a trivial offense The
hanging was followed by mutiny, which,
al one time. threatened the existence Of
the corps Gen. Curtis was so impressed
by the effect of the execution upon the
soldiers that ne commenced "a study Of
the question. ana has been devotiug all
of his leisure time 10 it over since. Among
other things he learned that. from 1888 to
1922 out of lbs trials under the federal
laws for homicides, us resulted in con-
viction. while, during the year 1880 there
were 12l homicides under the federal jur-
isdlction. and only sixteen convictions.
He concludes that this shows jurors have
become more and more averse to con
demning men TO death, and that they
even permit culprits to go scot free
rather than hang them. by giving the
jury the privilege of avoiding the death
sentence Gen curtis thinks many more
convictions would be- secured.
The bin is one that would make a rad
Teal departure I'm the administration of
the federal law. hence il should have had
the attention of the House when more
than forty-seven members We're pres
ent. ana should have been debated.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21

\ year or SO ago Senator Walthan of
Mississippi resigned lie had just been
reelected for long term The term he
was then serving, and for which he re-
signed, will not end until next March.
when the term for which he was reelected
win begin. Senator Walthalrs resignation
was accepted. and Mr. McLauren was
chosen to fiji the uuexpired term There
was a question whether Senator Walt
halls Observation-Disclosures about by i'll
health-covered more thap the term he
was then serving. 1t seems to have been
tacitly agreed that he could not resign
for the term not yet begun, because he
had not qualified for it and had no control
over it, Meanwhile Gen. Walthan has had
a long rest and is now restored to health.
When the Senate of the next congress is
called to order. he viii go forward to quail
ify for the new term. This is probably the
first case on record in which a senator
who resigned his senatorship stin had
senatorship left him. Gen. Walthall is an
able man, hence his return to the Senate
will please everybody-wi the possible
exception of Mr. McLauren
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21

News of Japanese victories is getting
almost monotonous as were the bulle-
tins Of republican gains il the Noyem-
Der elections
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21
southern Lumber in Canada.

United States Consul Bishop, at Chat
ham. Canada, reporting to the government
at Washington upon the general subject
SAYS that one result Will be an in
creased demand for lumber from the
south. This win be very grateful informa-
ton TO southern lumbermen, who for
four or five years have been obliged 10
force their market
Consul Bishop says the large stave in
dustries and other mills in ontario have
all resumed manufacturing. after sus.
pension for many months. They are
forced TO give consumers lower prices,
but they are booking orders for nearly
a year ahead The reduction In prices
amounts to about per cent. ana the fact
that there is only four or five years sup
ply of timber for the stave industry to
be cut from makes il pretty certain that
prices will not go lower He reports that
capitalists behind the staye ana barrel
making Industries are already in the south
to buy timber lands and make contracts
for supplies. and other Canadian capital
ISIS are buying heavily OF southern yellow
pine for flooring. joists and inside finish
ing A great many of the current ship
ments of yellow pine are going from Ala
bama The freight from Alabama to
Ontario is about equal to the cost Of the
lumber ON board ears in Alabama; never
theless. the demand is fair and is stead
lily increasing. AS to fancy woods. this
country must in future furnish the bulk
of those most used. BESIDES cherry and
walnut says the consul, Norway pine
oak and poplar used in Canada must come
from the United States in future, as the
native stock is nearly exhausted"
1t is to be hoped the consul has not
failed to read correctly the signs of the
times. The southern lumber business is
in need of "a stimulus of legitimate
kind such as treer foreign trade should
give it,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21

EASTERN OFFICE. % Park Row. New
York city. G.. :. Faulkner. Manager.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-06-15
"FRlTzn EMMETT's BAD BREAK.
While Drunk He Attempts to XIII His
Wife In San francisco.

While Drunk He Attempts to Kill His
Wife In San Francisco.
SAN Francisco, June 10.--J. X. EN-
NETT, Jr., the Ge unan dialect comedian,
attempted to nun der his wife Saturday
night and was only prevented from exc
cutting his design by forcible interfer-
ence of neighbors. Emmett had been
about town all day, and in the evening
returned home in drunken condition.
He and his wife had an alteration and
the woman fled from the house. EN-
NETT pursued her into tho street and
fired pistol at her at close range. Then
he caught the unfortunate woman and
beat her about the face with the butt
end of the gun. Two young men pulled
the maddened actor from his victim and
turned him over to the police.
Mrs. Emmett was taken to a receiving
hospital, where she refused to allow her
wounds to be examined. She had vio-
lent attack OF hysteria and the surgeons
could do nothing with her. She insisted
she had not been shot and said her hus-
band was too big coward to shoot her,
There was slight wound in her temple
and the police surgeons said the bullet
glanced from the bone and lodged under
the scalp.
Emmett and his wife recently con-
cluded an engagement at local theater
where they presented a play called
"Fritz in Madhouse."
Mrs. Emmett is California girl and
is known on the stage as Emily Liton.
She married Emmett about three years
ago. After refusing to be examined at
the hospital she was allowed to leave.
and is stopping with friends at hotel.
Emmett is in jail
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-06-15

SENATOR SHERMAN made use OF
these remarkable words at the Re-
publican Convention. "Gold is now
and has been for ages the chief
measure of values &C." Who
knows be ter than Senator Sher-
man that that statement is at va
rance from the facts. Let us prove
1t. 1t has been since 1878 and not
one minute longer, and if that is
for ages you can judge. But to
prove it. In 1892 our money bases
was established, and consisted Of
gold and silver both. The silver
dollar being the unit, but the two
constituted the basis, upon which
all redeemable money rested, and
so stood till 1878. The two being
the basis, and clothed with equal
money functions, of course was the
measure. How could either one
be the measure as long as the other
was equal to it for all purposes Z?
The act of 1878, destroyed silver as
basis money and changed the unit
from the silver dollarto the gold
dollar, and since that gold, only is
the basis money, and so the meas
ure of all values.-Jdckson Herald
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-06-15
Their occupation Gone.

The booming Of business in the cotton
and woolen mills, shoeshops and other
manufactures of New England is SO
great as to have quelled into silence the
blatant Home Market club of Boston. In
view of these evidences Of prosperity it
is not likely that the Home Market club
will get many more contributions Of
money from New England manufactuy
ers to be sent to Alabama and other
southern states and expended i'll an ef-
fort to promote the election of McKin-
leyites to congress. s.--Philadelphia Rec
ord.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-06-15
POOR MARKET FoR NONSENSE.
Senator Pritchard Makes Some Ridiculou
and Untimely Statements.

Senator Pritchard Makes Some Ridiculous
and Untimely Statements.
The people have had so long respite
from Republican silly talk on protection
that many had supposed that they would
hear no more of it for perhaps couple
of years.
But ut the Middlesex clubs latest
gathering, Senator Pritchard of North
Carolina took a turn at the old crank
and ground out some old chaff of re-
markably thin grade.
Senator Pritchard says that "the Dem
ocratic idea of buying England's pauper
made goods at the expense of annihila-
ton of American industry and American
labor has been realized within the first
six months existence of q Democratic
tariff law'
And this ridiculous statement is made
at a time when the English market is
being so crowded with American made
goods that the British pauper laborer is
forced out Of employment. Never in the
history Of the country have SO many
American made goods been sent abroad
as since the passage of the new tariff
bill.
Since the passage of this bill the can.
Inhalation of American industry and
American labor" is evidenced by heavy
raising of wages all over the country. We
are actually selling the English mechanic
his tools and the English laborer his
boots and shoes, as the enormous de
moralization of industry in Great Britain
shows.
Such Republican nonsense as Senator
Pritchard's S is taken for what it is worth
in heated campaign times But never
was there SO poor a market for it as just
now Boston Globe
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-06-15
----F-------
EDWARDS MUST HANG.

Supreme Court Fixes Date for His Ex /.
ecutiOn July 10.
Isaac l.. Edwards, the Hooking
county murderer, will hang July
10, unless the Governor intervenes
The supreme court passed on the
case Tuesday, overruling Edwards
application for Il new trial, and af-
firming the Judgement of the lower
courts. In view of the heinous
character of Edwards crime, the
murder being one Of the most un-
provoked and brutal on record, en-
ecutive interference is regarded as
extremely improbable.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-06-15
TnERE wasa ioiut mcetinp ol

THERE was joint meeting of
the Stockholders of the Columbus,
Hooking and Athens aud the
locking Valley and Lake Erie
Railroad companies Tuesday y at The
Offices of the former in the Clinton
building, Columbus, aud the formal
transfer of all the property Of the
former company was made to the
latter, including the lease of the
canal, etc. The new company will
begin the construction Of the rail-
road at once
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-06-15
Buckeye Route Excursions.

Cleveland o., half fare, June 18th
and 10Th, good for return until June
22nd. Account, meeting of Nation
al Republican League Club.
Columbus and return June 10Th,
half fare. Account, Commence
menl exercises Capital University
good to return until June goth.
Chattanooga Tenn, half fare,
June 25th, Goth and 9th, good for
return 10 days. Account, interna-
tional Conference Epworth League.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-06-15
Hirl,est wa:es In Years.

Biddeford Me- cotton manufacturers
see their Fall River MASS. competitors
and go them one better, remarks the
New York Mercury. The wages of the
1000 operatives i'll the Biddeford mills
are even now as high as those paid in
Fall River, where an increase was re-
Gently granted, but the mill owners have
given notice that on the first Monday in
june the old schedule of wages will be
restored in all departments. This means
for Biddeford operatives the highest
wages paid them in recent years.