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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09
YOUNGEST DRUMMER OF THE WAR
Johnny Brooks, Aged o, Served an{.
Wants His Discharge.

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
There is good stroy behind the bill
which representative Dick Blue has in
troduced directing the Secretary Of War
to muster and discharge John W. Brooks
as a drummer. Mr.. Brooks is a lawyer
now at Ellsworth, Kan. Thirty-two years
ago he was Johnny Brooks, aged ., the
youngest drummer in the United States
army. He was too young to be mustered,
but he wore the uniform, went upon duty
at all times, the same as the other musi-
clans, obeying the orders of his regiment,
the Fifth Veteran Reserve corps. He
served from July, 1868, to August, 1865, and
when his regiment was mustered out
Johnny's father was fifer and the boy
beat the drum.
Twenty affidavits accompany the bill.
They are made by members of company
r, and tell how faithfully the boy was on
duty, turning out day and night, winter
and summer, TO beat calls. When the
remains of President Lincoln reached In
dianapolis on the way from Washington
to Springfield, and were taken from the
car to the capitol to lie in state, Johnny
Brooks was there with his drum beating
the dead march.
The muster and discharge will make Mr..
Brooks a veteran de jure as he Is already
de facto. They will put him on the mus
ter rolls of his regiment and allow him
the pay to which he is entitled for the
two years service he rendered.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09
SLAVERY IN CHINA.
PitiabIe Lot and Treatment of Blind
Girls.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
Canton, China, Dec. Pain China the
subject knows no such thing as liberty,
and the Individual. who is but the frac-
ton of the unit of society, which is the
family. knows no rights as an individual.
This being true, slavery is the necessary
consequence. Human beings are bought
and sold as chattels, and quite frequently
a childIess man buys a boy from poor pa
rents to save his family from going out of
existence.
A form of domestic slavery in which
families of means buy slave-girls, is very
common here in Canton, and purchasing
them in early girlnood for from ten TO one
hundred dollars. according to their beau
ty and health, they work for their owners
without wages until they are of mar
riageable age, when they are sold in mar
riage or disposed of for other purposes,
according TO the price offered
But there is a kind of slavery more ap-
palling still, of which / desire specially to
write, namely, the slavery of blind girls.
Passing down the streets of Canton, at
night, my attention was called to numbers
of blind girls from fourteen to eighteen
years of age dressed in brilliant outer-gar-
merits with their faces rouged and their
hair ornamented with flowers. A woman,
carrying a musical instrument, led several
of these girls, and nave since learned
that they were owned by this mistress,
who conducted them, by night, to the low
est parts of the city, and by their playing,
singing and in most d1sreputable ways she
secures an income through them that en-
ables her to live in ease and comfort.
have met no class of persons, not except
ing the sore-covered beggar or the decay
ing leper that seemed SO pitiable as these
blind singing girls.
1t is regarded an affection for a girl to
be born in Chinese family, and when the
girl is blind her life is one of ceaseless
neglect and cruelty, and often, If the fam
lily is poor, she is sold for small amount
to one of these dealers in human bodies,
who plies her nefarious business until
death snatches her victim from her.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09
TRUTHS ABOUT THE "sTovE-PrPE."
1t Is Ugly and IncOnvenient, But still
There Are Those Who Cling to II.
L.. - L ...lln.. n. IL. ~.


There Are Those Who Cling to 1t.
From the London Daily News.
The tall, cylindrical hat is perhaps the
most hideous, the most uncomfortable.
the most inconvenient, the most perish
able, and the most tenacious of all arti-
cles of headgear known to history. Our
male ancestors wore odd and unhand-
some things; shoes whose prolonged tips
were attached to the knees, ruffs about
four feet in diameter, tights of incredible
tightneSS and so forth, but these foolish
fashions never lasted long. Men wearied
of them, or were laughed or preached
out of them. But the tall hat sits as
tight and eternally as Theseus on the
human skull. Like the corset on woman,
and far less eXcusably, 1t seems to be
a permanent institution.
True, we are more emancipated than
our sires, who played golf and even
cricket, in orthodox tall hats. Advanced
thinkers wear Devastating caps, round
cloth caps, socialist or Bible reader, fat
shaped soft black felt things, and the Ty-
rolean or Monte Carlo hat, which lady
described as more brigand than social
list In the country tall hats are little
worn now, except by elderly physicians
and solicitors Thus, there are seeming
tokens of the decline of the tall hat, but it
holds it's own firmly in London and Paris.
An eminent statesman wears his mostly
in his hand, to cool his Intellectual brow;
still, he wears IT. Few persons who do
not positively pose as enemies of soci-
curiously interchangeable have the cour-
age to wear any other headgear in town,
even at Lords. Yet no mortal has a good
word for the tall hat, except doctors
who carry stethoscopes in theirs. Even
in church the tall hat Is nuisance, and
gets bruised and dusty. In a drawing
room IT is q source of embarrassment, or
refuge of shyness. 1t is hard to keep
on the head in a wind, and when It is
blown off it flies before the gale like a
ship at sea. It's one esthetic merit, IL it
has one, glossiness, is out of place and
fugitive.
All hats are so alike that they are Of
ten changed at clubs. So evanescent are
the glories of the topper that a self-re-
specting person ought to have new one
every day. The wretched cylinder heats
the brow and produces badness. In brief,
the tall hat has a thousand faults and not
a single redeeming virtue. 1t Is a badge
OF class, but not a picturesque badge like
the sword. Our modern hats are fearfully
and wonderfully made of fine twill muslin
or calico, stiffened with shellac. The
black, shiny outside cannot be made in
England, and Is procured from France.
The processes Of making up require very
skilful workmanship. They are difficult,
and we may WISH with DR.. johnson, that
they were impossible. But what would
hatters do If hats went out? The popular
belief in their lunacy is not accounted for,
and the folklore society might examine
the antiquity and origin of the supersti-
ton. Hats are among our articles Of ex-
port, and il Is odd that nations which do
not even make them should wear them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09

However. we ought not 10 grumble at a
singular and 10 us profitable alteration.
tall hat, was insane (as tradition indicates
and reason suggests), his delirium has
been catching. Few can throw the first
stone at the halter, and, indeed, we pre-
sumo that he seldom wears hds own hats.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09
man THE WEAKER VESSEL.
Rab Believes That With a Crooked Diges-
ton He Doesn't Love Wife and
Children.

of
Graft Mankin Ever
Realize of a
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09
ORDINANCE.

BY Alderman Watson
An ordinance 10 reduce the tax required
of proprietors of pool rooms:
Section /. Be II ordained by the mayor
and aldermen of the city of Savannah in
pool room kept or maintained in the citv
of Savannah for the sale Of pools on
races shall pay as a tax the sum of five
hundred dollars per annum, instead Of ST.
900 per annum, as now provided on page
of the tax ordinance.
Section 2. That all ordinances and parts
of ordinances in conflict with this ordi-
nance are hereby repealed.
Ordinance read in council for the first
time jan 20. 1896, and published for in-
formation. A. N. MANUCY.
Clerk Of Council.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-10
SMASHED 4 GUARD
CONVICT ROGAN AT SALTWATER
MAKES A MURDEROUS ATTACK
WITH A KNIFE.
TWO DEEP, BLOODY GASHES.
THE SCARS OF WHICH MARTIN
POWERS WILL CARRY FOR
LIFE.
No Evidence Upon Which to Hold
Him for Curlin's Murder-StiII-
water News.

Martin Powers, a popular guard at
the Minnesota state prison, had an ex-
citing time with an enraged convict
at noon Tuesday and will carry scars
of his encounter all through life The
convicts were getting up from the din
ner table, when John Rogan, an en-
ploye in the shoe shop, pulled a sharp
shoe knife out Of his pocket and
plunged it at Powers, striking him
over the left eye. The cut passed to
the left of the eye and took off the
tip of his nose. Rogan raised the
knife a second time and cut Powers
again, the blade cutting through his
nose and inflicting a cash from which
the blood streamed. Powers, who was
almost blinded by his own blood, stood
in the aisle, but before Rogan could
be reached he (Rogan) threw vinegar
bottles and other missiles at him.
Deputy Warden Lemon FASTENED to
Powers assistance and subdued the
Infatuated convict with a well directed
blow on the head. Powers was re-
moved to the hospital, where his
wounds were dressed, and Rogan was
placed in solitary confinement War
den Wolfer, in speaking Of the mat
ter yesterday, said there could be no
question but that Rogan intended to
murder Powers, and his only griev-
ance lay in the fact that Powers had
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-10
ATLANTIC COAST GALE.
Heavy Property Loss Threatened All
Along the Shore.

BOSTON, Sept 9.-The first West India
hurricane Of the season arrived off this city
today. The storm center tonight is some
where southeast of Nantucket, but so energetic
is the disturbance that a heavy northeast
gale is sweeping the entire New England
coast, from PASSPORT to- Block Island, while
the surf aided by one OF the highest tides
of the year, Is threatening destruction to
hundreds Of seashore cottages and other
property along the water front Reports
from along the. shore show that the storm
tide this noon warned many of the cottagers
along shore, and many abandoned their sum-
mer homes this afternoon The wind in
many instances drives the sea high upon
the beaches wrecking houses. The tide at
Nantucket at midnight is one of the highest
seen for years, and many of the booths and
bath houses have been washed away. The
harbor is well filed with storm-bound yes
sells.
dispatch from Newport, r. l., states that
the Helen P. Written. of Gloucester, one of
the finest vessels of the fishing fleet missed
stays while trying to make harbor this after
noon, and was blown on the rocks. The
crew of eighteen men was taken off with q
her bottom out and will undoubtedly prove
a total loss. The wind along the Rhode
Island coast is blowing a gale, and the sea
is tremendous. A fishing schooner went
ashore off Point Judith late tonight, and
was wrecked in the breakers, the crew of
nine men being rescued by passing steamer.
The steamer Nantaska. on her way from
Boston to Nantaska, was blown ashore on the
flats at Worlds End,t Weir river, tonight
Help was summoned from Boston, and 1t is
thought she can be foated without damage.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-10

The st. Paul teams record at home in the
series just closed was fourteen victories and
ten defeats. The record Of Minneapolis dur
ing the same time was twenty-four victories
and one defeat.
Now, that st. Paul cannot secure second
place, all the rooters of this town hope De-
troit will take it. Watkins methods are
not liked here.
Chauncy Fisher, Manager Watkins crack
pitcher, has been having rocky time of it
among the Western contingent. He has been
hit generously all along the line.-Milwaukee
Journal.
Minneapolis theatrical manager will put
in the mechanical device known as 1.-The
little champion, which will illustrate the
games played by the team when on the road.
1t consists of a set Of checker men that
record each play on a diamond made Of can
vas.
st. Paul has ten hitters who have an aver
age considerably above .3OO The question is:
Why does the team not occupy better posi-
t1on?-Milwaukee Journal.
Roger Conner says the story that he will
retire from the diamond and take a Western
league franchise is news to him. He de-
clares that he will play again next season.
This seems to settle the rumor that Conner
was to go to Grand Rapids.
The st. Paul team have not only been ridi-
culed by the people, but by certain of the
home institutions.-st. Paul Dispatch, Sept g.
If the Detroit Free Press puts up bowl
instead of cup, Comiskey's pennant losers
will play the game Of their ives.-St. Paul
Dispatch, Sept. g.
The postponed game to be played off at
Detroit is the one which was prevented by
rain at Detroit on the afternoon of May 30.
| The st. Paul team has fourteen games to
play away from home, four each with Detroit
and Indianapolis and three each with Column
bus and Grand Rapids. If all these are
played the local team will have played 1888
games for the season. The alleged forfeit
from Detroit Sept. 20 will be thrown out be-
cause of its very paIpable irregularity and
the ten-inning tie with Indianapolis will not
be played off. Something ought to be done
however, before another season rolls around
to make Watkins play ball whether he wants
to or not His action as to yesterdays game
was wholly inexcusable. The Detroit fasco
was largely chargeable to Stalling's bull
headedness, but partly to Comiskey's failure
to have his regular substitute umpire on the
ground, whose authority to force play or
forfeit is unquestioned.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-10
LAST In MILL CITY
WILMOT'S PENNANT CHASERs GO
EAST WITH A BRILLIANT
RECORD.
MADE 1T NINETEEN STRAIGHT.
DEFEAT THE BUCKEYES IN A VERY
ONE-SIDED CON-
TEST.
DETROIT WINS TWO GAMES,
Widening the Gap Between Them
selves and Saints Quite Per-
ceptibly.
DETROIT WINS TWO GAMES
minneapolis z, Columbus 4.
Detroit 8, z, Milwaukee 5, @.
Kansas City z, Grand Rapids z.

Yesterdays game wound up the sea-
son as far as League games on the
Minneapolis diamond are concerned.
With a sigh that was almost heart
rending, the 33rd degree cranks took
last look at the boys and left the
grounds, after the locals had made it
nineteen straight, with feelings of re-
gret. Only about a thousand were
present, but they were all dyed in
the WOOL cranks, and sat shivering
through the cold to see Preston and
Wilmot swat it out for honors. and
to hear Perry laugh his good-natured
laugh the last time for a long while
The game iself was tedious, although
quickly played. the reason being that
at no time were the Senators even
close. Long, sinuous Mr.. Boswell was
on the rubber for the visitors, and he
pitched like a scared rabbit Nine
locals walked to first on account of
his inability to locate the plate, three
of whom scored. For the Buckeyes
Kehoe alone was able to make con-
nections with Mr.. Parker's deceptive
delivery for more than one hit, and
the LOTUS aggregation would have
been shut out but for an unfortunate
error that was certainly excusable.
Ball was out Of the game, and is likely
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-10
BRYAN's PROGRAMME.
Schedule for His Southern and East
ern Trip Arranged.

3
LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 9.-The following is
the itinerary of the southern and eastern trip
of w. ]. Bryan, as given out by him today:
He will leave Lincoln Friday, Sept. Ii, at
915 p. M, arriving in Kansas City at O'Clock
the morning of the next day. He will not
Wabash train for st. Louis, passing through
Mexico and Moberly, Mo-, at which places he
will make short speeches and viii get into St.
Louis at o'clock. That evening he will ad-
dress audiences at the Auditorium Music hall
and Uhrig's hall. Sunday morning he will
go to his old home in Salem H. and spend
the Sabbath with relatives, returning to st.
Louis Monday morning. Sept. IA, and immed-
lately go ito Louisville. KY, where he will
address meetings that evening. The next day
he goes to Lexington, KY, passing through
Versailles and Frankfort, and will speak in
the afternoon at Lexington. The same after
noon he will go to Maysville, and that night
Will return to Lexington, where at 10 o'clock
he will start for Asheville, N. c., passing
through Hartman and Knoxville, Tenn. be-
ing in the latter city early the next morning
and arriving in Ashevile at l p. m. After
speaking there Mr.. Bryan will spend two
days campaigning in North Carolina, but the
places where he will speak he could not tell
today. Richmond, w. Va, will hear him on
the evening Of Sept. 49, and the following
day he VIII speak in the afternoon at Wash
ingtcn and IN the evening at Baltimore. He
cou,d not tell definitely about his movements
for the next ten days further than they will
be spent in the New England states going
as far north as Maine and addressing Bos-
ton audience and also devoting part of the
time to New Jersey and Delaware New York
city will hear from him on Sept. 20, but fur
Their, he said, he could not give his move
ments.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan gave dinner today to
the members of the notification committee of
the silver party at the Lincoln hotel. There
were about 20 members of the committee
and prominent silver party politicians present.
-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-10

cent money-90 per cent credit with no money
to the back of it.
THE, The credit system Of doing business is
like foolish man who built his house upon
the sand, and the rain descended and the
HOODS came and the winds blew and beat
upon that house, and it fell; and great was
the rail- OF 1t. The only way to avoid panies
is to do the business of the country on a
cash foundation. great country like this
DONG It's business on borrowed money and
credit, is something not to be proud Of
Now, | wish to bring to the memory of the
rich and great ones who are doing their
best to grind the poor and the toiers of this
country to the earth by their usurious inter-
ests, and many other ways which the power
OF money gives them to do So VIII at one
James said about them something like 1886
years ago: go to- now We rich men ween
and howl for your miseries that shall come
upon you; your riches are corrupted and your
garments are motheaten Behold the
n1re OF s the laborers who have reaped down
your nelds, which is of you kept back by
fraud, crfeth and the cries OF them that
have labored are entered into the ears of
the tn, Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have condemned and
killed the just Eye have also killed the in
come taxi, and he doth not resist you''
me Sd OF November next is the day Of reck-
onlng. The confusion Of the money tyrants
Is not far off All the fuss and talk that the
gold bugs can let off about the double price
for goods and the 50-cent wages with which
laborers are TO be confronted after free coin
age becomes a law of the land Is not going
to convert any of that most useful class Of
voters to continue the monopolists In power
for the further degradation of labor Those
gold worshipers have the audacity to tell us
that money is not what we want but prop
erty. But want to tell them that no matter
how much property we have, if we can't get
money for it to pay our debts that trouble
to somebody is not far distant All the
damnable talk about credit drafts and checks
gives no comfort to the toilers Of this nation
One word about the banks: They are
real good traps to catch the depositors' money
They drift along nicely enough in the calm
sea of confidence. But let confidence once
be touched by the euroclydon of mistrust
then down goes the bank.
Where is then the depositors money? Echo
says-where No doubt the Globe will
find place for this in its columns, and oblige
"A Section Man.
Sims, N. D., Sept. 4.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-10

reported him for an fnfraction of the
rules. County Attorney Manwarine
was notified and the affair will be
brought to the attention of the grand
jury at the next session. Rogan came
here from Minneapolis a little more
than two years ago to serve five wears
for highway robbery. His folks reside
in st. Paul, and he is said to be a des-
perate character, having previously
done time in the Missouri prison.
Peter Rafferty,, of ST. Paul, who was
charged with the murder of Thomas
Curnn at Lake Elmo, was released
from custody yesterday, there being
no evidence upon which to base the
charge. Sheriff Smith states that
Rosenqu1st and White, who are in Jail
In st. Paul, will also be released. The
identity Of the persons who committed
the murder is still a mystery and the
authorities have no clue upon which to
WORK. TX. Raferty was happy boy when
ne lett the Jail yesterday, and told a
G o e correspondent that he had
taken his last drink of LIQUOR
prospects are that the Democratic
county convention, for the nomination
OF county ticket, will be held in this
city on the last Saturday of this month.
ana the Republican convention will be
held Oct g.
Fl. H. Gilman Of the Cascade Lum-
Der company, Burlington, was in the
city yesterday looking over the log
market.
The Hershey Lumber company's mill
at Oak Park has started up again and
VIII probably run the remainder Of
the season.
At meeting Of the board of educa-
ton held Tuesday evening, Prof. F.
A. Weld was re-engaged as superin-
tendent Of the public schools. He re-
ceives a salary Of s., 100 per annum.
The property of the Saltwater street
railway company will be sold at sher
ifs sale Oct. 26, to satisfy claims
amounting to $3,502.40. A claim of
Allen Curtiss for $4,000 was disaIlowed
by Judge Williston
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-10
JUMPS ON LAUGHLTN.
A North DakOtan Who Doesn't Agree
With Him.
70 the Editor of the Globe.

To the Editor of the Globe.
anu SO IL comes to pass that the worship
ers OF the Golden Calf have hired an
other high priest to prophesy against fhe
Tree coinage of silver. His name is ]. +,
Laughl1n. He promises ten chapters in all
Egypt had ten plaques before the Israelites
were liberated in that country. In his first
chapter he foretells the evils which are N
come upon the human race whenever free
coinage Of silver becomes a law of this great
est OF all nations.
He accidentally says a wise thing in bie
nrst chapter of his false prophecies, as given
in the st. Paul G l o of Aug. 20, when he
says that A pint of facts Is worth a pound OF
talk Looking for useful : facts in his talk
is like looking for one grain of wheat in q
bushel Of chaff, the finding of which is not
worth the search. The horny-handed rustic
VINO writes TINS tails to find much wisdom
In the following words from Prof. Laughlin:
Of course we would not wish to entirely
drive gold way, which is needed in trading
with the great commercial countries always
buying our cotton, wheat, corn and meat y
Surely everybody ought to know that In
stead Of causing the gold to leave this coun-
try, the American farmer, in sending his
cotton, wheat, corn and meat, to the gold
standard countries across the big pond, would
get the price Of his farm products in gold and
bring the same home with him to the United
States.
Another piece of wise 60 talk from the
professor is: ''f butter in tubs brings
twenty-five cents pound and the same
butter in stamped pats brings fifty cents a
ter will all be stamped, to be sold at the
higher price, Now l would just like to
ask Prof. Laughlin how he could tell the
price of butter in tubs, if all the butter was
stamped and sold for fifty cents a pound in
the markets OF the world. SO it will happen
with silver. When all Of it is stamped into
silver dollars. the bullion will be worth the
stamped value of the coin.
don't believe that the cause Of silver will
suffer much disaster from Prof. Laughlin s
opposition to the poor mans money, IL
the first article is any indication Of the nine
yet to appear. If gold takes a notion to hide
itself away, because silver gets the same
chance to be used as money, let 1t go. The
owners thereof can't hide II very long. They
are not able to live on gold without scat
tering 1t. If they do their business with sill
yer they must buy the silver with their gold
The panic that is to come will not be
brought about by the free coinage of silver
but by the rotten foundation on which this
country does its business credit. Ten per