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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12

There IS no rule OF the Union Railroad
company compelling conductors 10 carry
any specified amount OF bills and change
with them when they take a car out
but the men usually have about 81 or
80 so that they may BE- prepared for
stray so bills when they are presented
Tor a nVe-cent fare. The average passen-
ger seldom hands out any bill larger
than s.. and q man usually gives the
conductor a nickel or the smallest silver
change he has. A woman gives him pen
MES II she mas I'VE in her pocket boOk.
and some conductors maintain that the
women save their pennies for weeks at
a time. in order to load the pockets OF the
conductor with them; But there 8 one wo-
man who viii probably never again give
a conductor a large bill 70 change.
Il happened on a CranstOn street car,
one day in the later part OF last week
says the Providence Journal. The conduc-
tor made his rounds, and captured pen
MES, nickels. dimes and half-dOllars, until
he came to one woman, who, after search
ing through her pocket book, produced
$50 bill. which she handed 10 him, with
a glance which should have frozen his
soul and prevented a remOnstrance. It
failed; the conductor was patient and
lOng-suffering. but he rebelled against tax
ing a fve-cent fare from so bill.
rs this the smallest you have, ladyE
he asked.
He was answered that the bill had been
handed 10 him to have the fare taken out
nc tiiOu5.t a llollle1ts anu q DI4sHU 4-0o
penetrated his brain like an Y ray.
III give you your change in mo-
ment," he assured the passenger, and
then stopped the car just as II reached
Hoyle square, where the High Street Bank
IS located. HuTTying into the bank. he
laid down the bill and asked for change.
Give me nineteen silver dollars and
twenty nickels, please he said, and aft
er the tellers had been told the occasion
for haste, he gladly furnished the neces-
sary change. The conductor carried the
change in both hands out 10 where the
woman who wanted the bill changed sat
in the car and poured 1t in her lap, after
taking out the nickel for the fare. The
other passengers snickered, the receiver
OF all the silver grew red in the face and
indignant and the motorman started the
car with a jerk. The passenger remon-
strated, but she had her change, the con-
ductor had his revenge and the crowd had
satisfaction, and the majority against her
W. IN
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12
The Quarantine InvestIeatIon

The sanitary board has investigated the
complaints made by sea captains of I'M
necessary detention at quarantine, and of
hardships endured by them and their
crews while there. The board has also
inspected the quarantine station
and made inquiries as to whether
the rules for the control of
the station are being carried out prop
erly. The conclusions, at which the board
has arrived, from its investigation and in
spection may not be made known for sew
eral days. but before it dismisses this
quarantine matter 1t is to be hoped that
it viii give the quarantine regulations a
most candid and careful consideration.
We do not make this suggestion be-
cause we have any doubt of the sincerity
OF those who are responsible for the pres
ent regulations. but because we are con-
WINGED that the regulations can be great
ly modified in the interest of our com
merce without in the least increasing the
danger to the health of the city.
Savannah's main dependence is her
commerce. She cannot afford to have it
INSTRUCTED unnecessarily. 1t is of the
highest Importance of course that she
should be kept free from infectious dis
eases, but cannot that be done without
driving her commerce away from her?
We say driving her commerce away adj
wisely, because 1t is apparent that If
rival ports place much lighter burdens up
on shipping than she does they will get all
of that part of her commence which can
be drawn away from her.
1t seems to us that some of our regula-
tions are altogether too stringent. We
are not prepared TO say they are more
South Atlantic ports and the gulf ports.
but we think they are. Assuming that
they are the effect OF them is to cause
vessels to refuse to come here for as low
rates of freight as they will go to rival
ports whore the burdens placed upon them
are less. It Is well understood that very
slight differences in freight charges are
sufficient to turn commerce into new chan
nels.
The board should consider this question
of quarantine regulations very thorough
ly. Its Importance to Savannah cannot
be overestimated. Under our present quar-
antine our commerce is in danger of be-
ing seriously crippled. The danger can be
averted. It is for the sanitary board and
the city authorities to say whether It
shall be or not.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12
"a Duel of one"

Where is Mark Twain? 1t is to be hoped
that he is within reach of the mails, and
that he takes the daily papers For the dis
patches during the last few days have
contained matter that is worthy to be
treated by the greatest American humor-
list. Gen. Bradley johnson of Baltimore,
late of the confederate army, is down in
Cuba having fun with a certain retired
Spanish army officer. and enlivenlng the
dun summer days for the Havana people
who cannot get out of town to visit the
mountains during the warm weather.
A certain Manuel de Ampodia, retired
captain of infantry of the Spanish army,
having an imaginary grievance against
Gen. Johnson. has invited him to fight a
duel. 1t seems that Ampodia's grievance
is of omnibus character He claims that
Gen. johnson, who is now a newspaper
correspondent, insulted the whole Spanish
army in one of his letters Although Am
podia is retired, he deemed it his duty to
avenge the insult by calling the offender
out.
war in this country and fighter of known
qualities is not duelst. He is a man of
peace when he is not fighting in the ser
vice of his country. He is also to a con-
siderable extent a humorist In the spirit
of humorist, probably, he has called
Ampodia's bluff. With some well feigned
anger he has given it to be understood that
he is not at all averse to fighting a duel
with the self-appointed champion of the
Spanish army, at the same time disclaim-
ing that he has ever offered an insult or
an affront to the army or its officers. If his
would-be antagonist can meet certain con-
ditions. The first is that his adversary shall
be white man; the second that ne shall
be a gentleman, and the third that ne shall
have at least two clean shirts. He requires
also to know why Ampodia was retired
from the army, at time when his coun-
try has need in the field for every man
who is able to do any fighting at all.
1t has so far been impossible, however.
for the general to ascertain whether Am
podia meets any of the requirements. The
retired captain, while very brave and de-
fant in his letter. has failed TO materialize.
and Gen. Johnson cannot find him. 1t may
have been that he heard about Gen. John
sons clean shirt provision, and that took
him out Of the lists. The general put es-
pecial emphasis upon that item. He in
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12
RIrnI OF the seven sIsters.

man, whose name 1 do not now recall,
says a writer in the Indianapolis Senti-
mel, boarded a sleeping car standing near
the Union depot in St. Louis. After plac-
ing his ticket where II could be found by
the conductor, he retired, and in n very
few minutes he was fast asleep. The bump
ing and humping of the cars about the
depot did not disturb him in the least, and
by the time the train was well under way
he was far into the land of Nod. About ?
in the morning a drove of horses got on
the track The engineer did not see them
IN time to stop and the train was wreck
ed. The car in which the hero of the story
was sleeping was thrown from the track
and rolled down a 20-foot embankment.
Those who escaped uninjured lost no
time in beginning the work of rescuing
those imprisoned in the wreck. After an
hours time they reached the man from
st. Louis Under a pile of bedding, and
surrounded by the dead and dying they
found him. He appeared to be unconscious,
and they tenderly raised him and bore him
from the scene. Just as they were placing
him on the cot he aroused himself and
gently breathed the name Mary"
Poor fellow" said some one, "he is
thinking about his wife
His next remark knocked this in the
head, however.
Mary" he yelled, what on earth do
you mean? When 1 asked You for fried
eggs l did not expect to get them boiled. "
With this remark he jumped to his feet
and looked around him wildly.
'Where-what-what wrongY' he ask
ed
The situation was explained to him, and
al soon as he could get his bearing he went
me or not, but I'll be switched If he didn I
sleep through 1t all,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12
Told By Daniel Webster.

1t IS never safe to say things to the
ragged, unkempt men one sees and meets
a fishing by some mud pond or stream.
This truth is illustrated by the case of
Daniel Webster
Webster was fisherman and had sloops
and a smack in which he used to enjoy
the pastime. He was not overfastidious
in his fisherman's dress If he tore his
clothes he did not take the trouble to
have the rent sewed up and when enjoy
ing his sport he was a. tolerably rough
looking customer, according to a Roches-
ter paper whose reporter interviewed Mrs.
Dawes a resident of Marshfield in Web
Sters days.
Webster and Mrs. Dawes uncle were
fishing one day from the shore of the
bay, when a stylish young fellow, a visl-
tor at Marshfield, tumbled head over heels
into the marsh. The tumbler yelled at
Webster, asking how much he would take
to haul him out and carry him over the
mud.
"A quarterw answered Webster and the
deed was done. Whereupon the quarter
was TUNED over and Webster had turned
away, when the mud-stumbler asked:
To whom am 1 indebted?"
only Daniel Webster"
The man said afterward that he apolo-
gized for his superciliousness and did not
reckon up other people according to the
number of tears and patches and mud on
their clothes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12
Told By Mr.. duBignon.

Told by Mr.. duBignon.
The following story was recently told
in New York to the correspondent of the
Atlanta Journal by Mr.. T. G.. duBignon
of this city:
when 1 was on my way recently from
Montgomery, Ala, to Georgetown, Ga,
where l was to speak, Mr.. Tillman was
on the train with me. l had met him when
he was governor of South Carolina After
we had talked for some time, a country
man sitting near us put down the paper
he had been reading and launched into a
food Of terrible abuse of Ben Tillman.
He had just read something about the
senator. He cursed roundly, using every
epithet in his very full vocabulary OF
billingsgate. l have seldom heard such
abuse heaped upon any one. / watched
Mr.. Tillman closely. He had his blind
side toward us and pretended to be look
ing out of the window, but the worse the
farmer swore the faster Tillman tapped
his heels on the floor and became the
more intently interested in things out
side the car.
AT last the countryman got up to leave
the train. 1 followed him to the door
and introduced myself.
did you know the man sitting opposite
you while you were cursing TillmanO"
asked him.
No said he.
" That was Tillman.' I said.
WAS it, sure enough? the farmer
asked.
That was the senator himself I re-
Piled
We'll he said, with an oath. 4 am
glad of It. l only wish l had known it,
would have made 1t hot for him."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12
Mckinley. Letter of Acceptance.

McKInIey'- Letter Of Acceptance.
4 great deal OF interest is being mani
tested in Maj. McKlnIey's forthcoming let
ter OF acceptance. Il is easy 20 under
stand why this is 50. The republicans
realize that the fight OF the campaign IS
10 be between silver and gold. They
know now that the tariff Is OF only minor
importance-that It cannot be forced 20
the front-and that the discussion Of It
would be practically a waste Of time.
Therefore. they want definite and bold
declaration from their candidate In favor
Of sound money.
The understanding seems 10 be that Gov.
Mckinley is willing to make his letter as
strong IN favor Of sound money as the
most ardent advocates OF the gold stan
dard could wish, and IL is said that in do
ing so he viii be only acting in accord
ance with his own wishes and judgment.
The claim rs made for him that at no time
has he been in favor Of a straddle on the
financial question. Whether or not this
claim IS well founded will never be known
to the public. probably. IN his letter.
however, he viii have an opportunity TO
put himself before the people in the posi-
ton he wishes to occupy on the money
question. as well as other questions.
Mr.. Hobart, the republican nominee for
Vice President has left no doubt where
he stands on that question When he was
notified OF his nomination he spoke so
boldly for the gold standard that he in
creased greatly the estimation in which
he is held by his party. II Gov. McKin-
ley is as outspoken as Mr. Hobart has
been there will be no room for doubt as
to what the real issue before the coun-
try Is.
The campaign that is now begun Is not
going to be a tame affair. The whole peo-
pie recognize that the issue to be settled
is greater than any that has been before
the country since the civil war, and that
the party that wins is likely to control
the country for a generation. The cam
paign therefore will be such a one as has
been seldom witnessed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12
THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
SIXTEEN PAGES
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Special Notices-Lovely Home for Sale.
J. A. Bates: We Are Building Three Nice
Two-Story Houses John L Archer & Co. !;
Storage for Furniture, Etc, Savannah
District Messenger and Delivery Compa-
ny; The Regular Weekly Ball at Hotel
Tybee. Tuesday Evening; Notice, Capt.
p Noe: All Methods Are Used. at Savan-
nah Steam Laundry; Busy Times With
Us, Rothschild & Roos; A Long Felt Want
Supplied, Scott & Davis. g. Henry Street;
Bargains in Small Houses. Firms Auc-
ton Rooms; Bicycle or $25 in Gold. at Ma
sonic Temple Pharmacy; IslingtOn House,
Highlands, S. c.; Bateau Yacht Atlantic
for Sale, r. B. Britton. Charleston, S. c.;
Moving Goods. Jno. T. Evans & Co.
observation-disclosures Gov. Stafford for
Daufuski Beach To-day
Our Prices Lower Than the So-Called
Bankrupt Bargains-At Ecksteins.
Summer Shoes at Summer Prices
Charles Marks.
Continuation of the Bankrupt sale-At
Leopold Adler's.
Electric Fans VIII Keep You COol-At
Gutman's.
Chndrens Shoes Slaughtered for One
hNNh-AogNh AoADos
AS 1; by Magic the Cooking Is Done
Mutual Gas Light Company.
A Budget Of Bargains-Daniel Hogan.
Wagons-savannah Carriage and Wagon
Company.
Music-At Hotel Tybee, Sunday.
All of This Week-At South End Hotel,
Tybee.
Ladies' Furnishers-Walsh & Myers.
Chamber sets-At Vests China Palace.
Would You Like to Save Money-Emil
A. Schwarz's Son.
The Temperature-At Levy's.
Men Who Are Particular-Falk Cloth
ing Company.
Save Your 10 Per sent.-B. H. Levy &
Bro.
Medical-Worlds Dispensary Prepara-
tons; Cuticura Remedies; Hoods Sarsa-
parilla; Munyon's Remedies; Abbo, the
Up-to-Date Physician.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost Personal; Miscellaneous.
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Mr.. bryan. Financial Views.


IN a signed letter from Chicago publish
e1 IN Fridays issue OF the World. Mr..
Brya1. the democratic candidate for Pres
iss1r. states his financial views as follows.
% am not a believer in either free snveT
o- gold, but am an out-an-out bimetallist.
It IS clearly apparent TO me that financial
s--insency does not hinge on the amount
% money IN circulation. but rather on the
Influences that control circulation. The
very best times We ever had occurred when
there was very low rate OF money per
capita in circulation"
There are two points in the foregoing
that are worthy Of careful consideration.
Mr.. Bryan says that he IS not in favor Of
free silver or gold but that he Is a bimet-
ailist. We understand him TO mean that
he is neither a silver monometaIllst nor a
gold monometallist. From this we
infer that ne holds that indie
pendent and unlimited silver coinage, al
the ratio OF 16 to l. would be followed at
once by such an increase IN the price Of
silver that silver dollar would circulate
assistance from the government. But sup
pose II shouldn't? Would Mr.. Bryan then
favor stopping the coinage of silver dol
lars? II unlimited silver coinage at the ra-
Ito OF IS to gave us only silver monomet-
allism would he admit that ne had made
a mistake. and favor legislation changing
the ratio or stopping silver coinage alto
gether?
Senator Hnl offered an amendment 10
the platform to the effect that II silver
coinage at the ratio Of l6 to did not re-
suit in bimetallism within a year after
its adoption the minis should be closed to
silver. and it was voted down. That would
seem to indicate that the Chicago conven-
ton and Mr.. Bryan hold different views on
the silver question. though the conven-
tion's action might be interpreted TO mean
that II did not want TO admit the existence
OK a doubt Of the correctness of the views
It entertained on the silver question.
Mr.. Bryan also says that financial strin-
gency does not hinge on the amount of
the per capita circulation of money, but
on the influences that control circulation.
The best times we ever had. he says, were
when we had very low per capita circu-
lation. This view will hardly be accepta-
bic to the populists, who are expected to in
dorse his nomination. In their last nation
al platform they call for per capita cir
culation OF $50. The present per capita cir
culation Is not quite half that amount. The
populists evidently believe that good times
depend upon a very large per capita cir
cuation, and there are reasons for think
ing that most Of those who favor free sill
yer coinage hold the same view. 1t would
be a rather remarkable state of affairs II
IL should be found that Mr.. Bryan's fnan-
cial views are not in harmony with those
Of the party that nominated him or of
those of the party that is expected to in
dorse him.
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slsts that he viii not crafty even a re-
tired captain BY shooting aim IN a dirty
shirt. ana his regard for the eternal TT
ness Of things demands that after the duel
the late iamented shall have another clean
shirt FOR the interment
The dispatches for some days have had
duel. So far. however. Gen. johnson IS the
only prospective duelist IN sight. and the
affair remains "a duel Of one" as the
general calls II in his letter 10 the New
York Journal. II the other duelist should
probably demand 70 see his two clean
shirts. and laugh the fellow out Of coun-
tenance.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12

But little attention has been paid 70 the
terribly destructive earthquake and tidal
wave in Japan recently. Advices received
al the japanese legation in Washington
tend to show that it was one Of the great
est caiamities reported in recent years.
The wave swept the northeast coast OF
the country. The killed and injured num-
bered nearly 1900. Some 600 houses
were swept away. Ships were carried in
land and left long distances from the
harbors. The coast was swept clean OF
the necessaries Of life, and there will be
much suffering among the survivors. 1t
Is thought that the catastrophe was
caused by an earthquake IN the sea on
the coast
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12
"a Whaling Big Mistake"
From the Mobile Register Dem. }

The democratic party either made a
whaling big mistake four years ago or ii
is making one now. Which is it? Both
cannot be right. Therefore, when we find
that the party has fallen into new hands
that u has absorbed many elements of
populism, that it is controlled by men
who indulge in epithets instead of argu-
ments and who denounce not only the
democratic policy of the past but the
leader whose powerful personality and
strength OF character won victory for US
in 1892, we cannot escape the conclusion
that the democracy of the later day is
not true democracy, and its policy not
the true democratic policy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12

1t seems that there were three Original
Bryan men" in the Georgia delegation
Mr.. Lewis, Mr. Hill and DIR. Bush. The
fact that Mr.. Lewis made the nominate
ing speech would seem to give him the
call. Yet it must be borne in mind that
the speech might have fallen fiat had
not DR.. Bush rushed the banner over to
the Nebraska delegation at the opportune
moment Still. had not Mr.. Hill done
chain lightning missionary work in the
delegation, there might not have been
any nominating speech or any rushing
of the banner. 1t is pretty hard to de.
side off-hand which of these gentlemen
should succeed Hoke Smith.
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Jones, he wrote the platform. There
has been a rumor to the effect that Mr..
Bryan did it himself Those who bore in
doubted the rumor, which will now go
into permanent retirement. It is I'M
necessary, OF course, TO introduce Jones.
He is the great professional national
regular business. though between conven-
tions he kills time by editing the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. "rassling" with
Proprietor Joseph Pulitzer and Amounting
his whiskers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12

1--WE have chosen a splendid leader.
beautiful as Apollo, intellectual beyond
comparison" That is part of what
Gov. Stone Of Missouri said about Mr..
Bryan. Even the feverishness of the con-
vention at the moment is no excuse for
any such fulsome and disgusting fattery.
Mr.. Bryan may be a well favored man.
but he is no Apollo. If he were, pull
chritude is not the thing to run great
government with. He may be an intel
lectual man, but to say that he is beyond
comparison is simply sickening syco-
phaney. If he is an intellectual man. it
must have nauseated him to read Gov.
Stones remarks.
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Alone,

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
I sit in the dusk alone
Days uneventful hours
On heavy pinions flown.
Outside, the steady rain;
Against the window-pane
Dim, shadowy masses loom,
Breathing faint perfume
Her favorite flowers.
Vague. shadowy forms that seem
Adrift from a cherished dream
OF the vanished hours.
Silence fs over all
Outside the patient rain.
I hear youths longings call
Over the gulf of years;
hear and the sudden tears
Spring to my eyes unbidden-
Triumph of grief long hidden.
They call, but they call in vain:
the past is withered and dead.
And low on its sepulchered head
Falleth the sorrowing rain.
Frank Putnam