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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
SAPPHIRE MINES.
The District From Which Most of
These Jewels Come.


From the Philadelphia Press.
The Palm mines. from which most Of
the sapphires come, are spread over an
area of six miles by two and consist Of
thirteen mining villages, the chief Of
which are Baw Taxa and Baw Dineo
Those two are more than four miles apart
but they are Joined by an excellent road
cut through the forest and well drained
Sapphires are found all over this district.
the whole country soil is riddled with
holes sunk in the red soil down tn tha
sapphire layer
Formerly the stones were found orjtA
near the surface, but these places bavS
long since been exhausted, although the
Burmese still continue to turn over fbe oId
heaps in the firm conviction thar nracio Oi
stones grow. Now the stones are found
at depth of from fifteen to twentv-five
feet IN a reddish, gravely layer of VARYING
thickness up to eighteen inches The M
sunk IS usually some five feet in dian1efer
ana either square or circular SDu is
raised in bamboo baskets, attached to tas
end or a balanced lever and when tbe
sapphire layer is reached the stratum is
carried TO the nearest water and wa sbaS
carefully for stones. Not more than one
SHAFT in three pays for its WORKING ~
penses, but when the sapphire ia,5er 4
struck the profits may be large i1daaJ
1t IS all question of luck. To dIg anS
work out one shaft occupies two or tbraa
men one month. Two or three Rurno,ee
generally go into partnership and bire
Laos miners TO work for them and sints
the smart at the rate of two ticals ~
ABOUT ~ cents, per eighteen inches.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
INsURGENT LETTERS.
Methods Used by the Patriots to Get
Them by the Spanish.
From Harner,s Week

From Harper's Weekly.
The question is often asked, How do
the insurgents manage to forward their
letters from the island, the ports of
which are in the hands of the Spanish"
In very many ways which the ingenuity
OF men and women can always contrive;
but the safest and most expeditions mes
senger that the Cubans can choose Is a
prominent loyalst. This has been repeat
edly tried, and the plan has worked to
perfectton-somewhat as follows: A COM
mittee of the insurgents waits upon a
wealthy manufacturer or planter who is
identified with the Spanish cause. They
snow him sealed package inform him
that It contains letters, and request him
TO take 1t to New York and there de-
liver 1t to the Cuban Junta.
lie Indignantly refuses The committee
insists: You are well known as a 10y
alist; the authorities will never suspect
you; you can go and return without be-
ing searched-a thing which is impossible
for one of us And then a threat is add
ed: If you take the next steamer for
New York, and if we get cipher dis
patch from the junta saying that you
nave delivered this package to them with
the seals intact, at the earliest possible
moment, then we shall be much Obliged
10 you, and your property in Cuba will
be safe. But If you refuse or delay your
factory will be destroyed by dynamite
Here, by the way, is some of the dyna-
mite"-and the insurgents show him a
quantity of the explosive.
1t is said that several eminent persons
In HaVana-eVen officers of the volunteers
have been thus terrorized; and that in
one case the unwilling messenger, on his
arrival in New York, actually made a
contribution, through the junta, to the
insurgents treasury, as the price of i'm
munity.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03


] rrr.T-.ra "A certificate when leaving there
] 81. .r. ,--f, land .h-- rhr. have either
I bad smallpox or have been successfully
F"l--l'al
TIE cty 81 Orlando is trying the expert
meat 1f putting down brirf sewers. COW
r --f.r. -..-, ,.r...e az sl,f .---,..+ l.-oss-
-- 49, rrT e-orl7e-l ...,.-..rs have lived
] -I..r 5qv tr.-e.
GIeE an emplove o. "a flrpeut.ue farm
T fla T.aflvrtte county. was shot and dam
esrou=iy wounded by Williams. another
tmn.os e oi ,ne stine camp. W mans save
The shell road 10 Orange city now eX-
tends more than hair the distance be-
. t..-.... u mn ....1 AMI ,r,,-.,.,-..
D,. 80 =. 49,. .,- ,, - t.7
49, .--'s .,.-i -, -,iIr
7
The democratic executive committee Of
the Second congressional district. named
hy Hon. Robert ". Davis. the democrat. g
..'s -oi ~ ,r t,o,l i,' 40
- va 81 1850 ~ y. W ,I1,,i[-
- anu "--- ' "
The democrats OF Sumtcrville precinct
MIN ..f,. . .-.,,,t l.-t....,,e and r.ier,i. lr,
suInteit iie on aug 20 tAt GATE tHe sta'
Sti,lllites are bii-ei 20 SIX HeIs Z.
zen 0f tie county. ana ii is hoDed every
precinct will organize democratic CLUBS
anu 'Ni" oN1 III ioI0s'
Two of DaGe countv's truck growers
49,. 49,. 49,, &c., C,,, .-,,,,,..,. sli,,,,sd
nav p i
from eight acres LsI crates OF toihd tota
and i.9 crates or egg plants, the crop net
ung MIN an average OF niue more lha AZ
Y per crate. The bay trucker reported -
crates OF tomatoes from TWO acIes' tue
crop netting 80 per crate. Ol one aeIe
OF TINS tract 40 crates were grown Win
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
INCOME OF PRINCESS MAUD.
She and Her bridegroom VIII Have
in All $4,000 n Year.
From London Truth

i IUIW IfUIIUUW IIUIU.
As a matter of fact. Princess Maud is
to have $4,000 a year out of the allowance
which was granted by parliament in 1889
for the family of the Prince and Princess
of Wales The Crown Princess of Den
mark is to make an allowance of either
$50, 600 or $4,000 a year to her second son.
The couple are to occupy a suite of apart-
ments in the palace Of the King of the
Hellenes at Copenhagen, and one of the
royal villas near Bernstorff castle. will
be their country residence in Denmark
while in England they will live at Annie,
ton, small place near Sandringham.
which belongs to the Prince of Wales II
is well known that the crown princess
does not like the marriage, as she had
quite made up her mind that Prince
Charles would become the husband of her
relative. the Queen of the Netherlands
who is of course, the greatest match in
Europe.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03

His name was George Arnold and he
was arraigned in police court Monday on
the charge of stealing ride on a train.
Where were your asked Judge Fled
Ter, referring to his former place of abode.
In the Indian Territory" was the re-
ply. Il was waiting"
Waiting for who?'
Just waiting"
What was you waiting for?"
ITO get my money"
who frOm?"
The man I was waiting for"
What did he owe 1t TO you for?'
For waiting"
How did you start in waiting?"
by beginning to wait"
yourself"
I thought you knew. I was waiting In
a restaurant"
OH gasped Judge Fiedler-Cleveland
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
FLORIDA.

The young Jacksonville sports are get
ting up yacht race
The widening of the tracks Of the Florida.
Southern railroad is finished as far as
Brooksville.
Some of the state papers are advoca-
ting the adjustment of the office of coun-
ty treasurer.
Maj. ]. c. Dean of Waldo died Tuesday
morning at O'Clock of typhoid fever. He
mad been Ill only few days
Two boys in Orange county last week
killed seven-foot alligator and then rob-
bed its nest Of thirty-six eggs.
The funds necessary for school opera
tions in Nassau county for the year he
ginning July amount to SLABS.
A new postofhce has been established at
East Pass to be known as Destin If will
be supplied from Point Washington.
The Bradford Land and Improvement
Company viii soon erect a sawm4u on the
T. c; and P. railroad, between Waldo and
Fairbanks.
Two hundred and fifty men are now at
work on the Belleview hotel at Clear We
ter. Workmen are flocking there from ev-
cry direction.
An indignant Taxpayer" offers a re-
ward of $50 in the Tavares Herald to any
one who will find the town officers Of
IaYares and get them to do their duty.
Mrs NJ. A. Weidman of st. Augustine
has put in claim for SIS against the East
Coast Railway Company for a COW killed
by one OF the company's freight trains
northern man is said to be about n
open the Leon hotel at Tallahassee as
an l-the-year-round hosiery. The b,,1a
ing ana furniture are being Thoroughly
renovated. eN4S
All Key West passengers now have to
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
WORDS WITHOUT A RHYME.
The Language Contains Several
which Poets Hate to Run Against,

The Language Contains Several
which Poets Hate to Run Against.
There are dozen words in the English
language in every day use for which en-
terprising people have despaired of ever
| finding rhyme. The word month for
| example, is one of these Silver" is an
other word 1t seems easy to secure a
rhyme for. AS matter of fact, trying to
find something to rhyme with silver
nearly drove a London writer of verse in
sane long ago. AS a last resort he adver-
tised in the newspaper and received but
one reply. 1t came from that master of
verbal contortion, W. S. Gilbert, Sir Ar
thur Sullivan's erstwhile partner who
submitted the word "chlver." He wasn't
quite clear, he said, as to what a chllver
might be, but he had seen the word in
advertisements of sales of farm stock and
had an idea, which is correct, that it de-
scribed a species of sheep.
Orange" is another word without
rhyme. Gulf is also without an English
partner, and "culm" and "cusp'' are alike
sontary. Many poets who have sought in
vain for rhymes to revenge" and
,aVenge' Will not be appeased when they
learn that but two exist-"penge" and
'Stonehenge." "Coif' is now. haDniIv for
versifers, growing obsolete, for there is
no word which rhymes with it. Scarf,
has been daringly linked at the end Of n
nhe with half of calf" but this is a
practice to be discouraged. "Sealp"
rhymes only with Alp" but, like babe"
and "astrolabe," it would require ynrob
ingenuity to find an excuse for brinein q
these words into juxtaposition. "FaIseS
mas on several occasions, by an abuse of
poetic license, been associated win
vase, though the correct French pro
nunciation of the latter word would de-
stroy the rhyme 'U ue-
Or the names of places, the African TOWN
OF Inn buctoo has long been famous for he
4ls WIthout rhyme. The nearest success
that any poet has ever attained In 49, -
spect was when in some old verses describ-
ing desert hunt "cassawary' was mad
10 rhyme with missionary" an "Timbuade9
too with thin buck, too" '"c-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
PASSING OF SIGHT,
Future Generations Will Inherit
Eyes That Cannot See.
From the Pittsburg Disnatch


From the Pittsburg Dispatcb
"A New York occulist says that the
Americans are of all civilized nations t5a
most reckless in the use and neplao+ ~
their eyesight He maintains that If =.
halt is not called on the practice Of usir.
electric lights without ground olass
shades, not only will the eyes of hi.
generation be seriously injured. but even
tually race of almost sightless men on.
women will be developed '44ei ana
me eHect produced upon the eve nv TIA
naked hght, or loop, is a PARALYSIS ~ ~
junction of the retina, and is aN5o. tiie
slmllaf 10 the so-called snow bIinJros-S
temporary remedy is proDosed ~ -
Pacing OF the incandescent lights biobas
so as to be further from the eI,aS o ,,es
the use of ground glass or otber sr1o 5llu
light. 1888 unused
But this expert insists that the real o,,ra
hes In more sweeping -nnaae,,cre' - ia {
adds: THE proper thing fo az - - g ne
lsh eIectrlc lamps altogether. Tbeir go
eral use has been of too short q IIIras3f ~
Tor US TO realize the actual extent Of 49, ~
Injury 70 the human eye, but If they con
tlnue 70 De employed, we shall realize -
mistake only when it Is too late wv Ut q
should be used are fiuorescent + w lise1
wnlcn cost no more than the present sIe7S .
Trlc llghtS' and which give a Steady I{qLt
IN lact, would not be surprised 70 . - -,
nuorescent tubes in general use tbro,,tSgS e
out New York city within a year - Il
Although this prophecy is n,oh, -.
somewhat premature, it may be sai G't 4, by
ARA a;IIlangem.ents are now being made '-' to
Ight city block entirely by pbosnbor
escent tubes, and there is no donb5 p tbi /.
IN the near future ''etheric' light win ~ ID
come the favorite medium of iGurip,tai pc Pc
d0T Interior me- # not fos exterior use It q
duction of this light will be of vast 49,, y
mt in promoting the Improvement of e fba
national eyesight u Tue
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03

Edwin Lord Weeks, the American ar
fist who was appointed a chevalier of the
Legion of Honor of France recently. fs
a Bostonian. He is as great a traye1ar
as a painter. He has lived in Paris for
twenty wears.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03

Prof. Miraglia of Piancenza. a Cstbo
lie priest who has quarreled with the
church authorities, is conducting services
in opposition to the bishon If 7+be 49,
and attracting crowds. He compares him,
self TO SaYonarola. - y NllI-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03

Inc steamships of this COMPANY are an,
pointed TO sail from Savannah for Bali.
more as follows-standard time:
VIM CRANE, Capt. c. James. WEDNEs.
DAY, July 20, at 900 a. m.
d; II MILLER, Capt. G. w. BnIups, SAT-
OHDAf' Aug. l, at 1880 p. m.
BERKSHIRE, Capt. ]. w. Kirwan, WE'D.
NESDAY, Aug. 5. at 200 D. m.
And d. from Baltimore every TUESDAY,
ot J. ], CAROLAN, Agent.
w d rrr,oD-r Savannah, Ga.
A. d. STEBBINS, A. T. NJ.
). G WHITNEY. Traffic Manager,
General Offices, Baltimore Nd.
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ferred % %. when Hampton had by his
side the gallant Cord Ju-both battling for
the homes Of the common people"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03

OLD NEWSPAPERS 200 for "a cents. ~
Business Office Morning News
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
TO PHILADELPHIA
MERCHANTS AND MINERS
TRANSPORTATION CO

~ NEW YORK-Steamer ana Pou
Cabin, limited days. 1880; Cabin MIL tSGll
&c $zV-V0 Excursion, $500; second class
~ BOSTON-Steamer and Rau-Cabtn
glllIhs ~, $z2.OO; second class, Limited
81 ~ N-Steamer-Cabin. Limited
class, limited 10 days, $500 '''V' seeono
go w AZ d65INGION-Steamer and Rail-
C ann $500; second class, $ll.O.
~ PHILADELPHIA - Steamar "a
Rail. Cabin, $3.50; second class go n anu
TO LPHIA-Steamer- Calm Cabin
$500; second class, $3.50. = a0'i'
~ lB8ALFIMORE-Cabin $500; Excur,
son, S29Ni second class. $1,000
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
CRIPPLED.

a Large Family Recommendations
Lawyers on Woman suEraGc-Has-
fne=s League Of Orlando on Good
ROads-Railroad and school Tax
in FIorida-A Prominent Minister
Of south Carolina Dcad-Wr cobb
Makes an Impression at Orange
burg.
The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-11-05
STOCK RECEIPTS.

The Number OF Cattle, Hogs and Sheep Re-
ceived ut Kansas City from January to
October 81,
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. a-Receipts
Of cattle here last week were As, 500,
against 46, 900 the corresponding week
of 1885, Receipts from January to five
p. m. Saturday, 1894, 7ss cattle, and
7s,297 calves, showing an increase,
when comparison is made with the
same time last year, of ~, 1877 cattle and
s,163 calves. Receipts of calves last
week, 2,75s, against l,525 the same week
in 1895. Receipts of hogs last week,
44,92a, against As, 4l6 the corresponding
week of 1895. Receipts from January
l to five p. m. Saturday, :, 1 04, 594, an
increase of l47, 763 over the correspond
ing time last year. Receipts of sheep
last week, 1906, against 20, 400 for the
corresponding week of 1895. Receipts
from January to five p. m. Saturday,
Sls,37O, an increase of 59,.5s over the
corresponding time in 1895.
The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-11-05
FLOODS IN FRANCE.

Enormous Damage Has Been Done to
Property, but No Deaths.
PARIS, Nov. 2--Telegrams received
from the departments bring news OF
further floods and alarming rise in the
rivers Enormous damage to property
has been done, but no fatality has yet
been reported. The river Seine is still
rising and is at the food stage. The
authorities have dispatched to Comps
and to Vallabregues, the artillery wag-
ons from Mines in order to assist in
the work of relief. The river Rhone
has burst its banks at Lauson, which is
now isolated. The only communication
through considerable districts is by
boat. Troops have left Avignon to as
sist in repairing the broken banks of
the Rhone. The news received from
Lyons is more disquieting. Many
houses are flooded at Neuville-sur-
Saone and the river is covered with
furniture. The barracks at st. Lam.
bert is surrounded by soldiers and pris-
oners. Half this district is inundated
and numerous factories at Lyons and
vicinity are closed.
The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-11-05

ing attitude of the other induced him
to rise. However, he had no intention
Of giving in.
Obeying his instructions, he caught
hold of Schmidt's foot to give him "a
leg up" Before the naturalist could
grip the top of the wall, however, Phin.
cas- saw his opportunity.
Bracing himself for the effort, he
exerted all his strength and pulled
Schmidt bodily from the wall. He fell
fiat on his face, and before he could re-
cover himself Phineas jumped on his
lack and seized him around the throat.
emitting a yell that would have done
credit to Sioux Indian.
The next moment Phineas was
dragged off from behind and found him
self in the clutches Of burIy member
of the local police force.
Four or five others seized Schmidt,
who struggled in vain to free himself.
"What am I arrested for" gasped
Phineas. "There's your mani"
Phineas would no doubt have been
led off with the other prisoner but for
the timely arrival on the scene of the
last person in the world he had cX-
pected to see-his brother John!
Here, what on earth is the meaning
Of all this?" he demanded, when, as
the result of John Pecl's interference,
he found himself free.
John stayed behind a minute or two
to explain that Herr Schmidt, the mat
uralist," and Edward Harper-the no
torious forgcr who had defied New
Scotland Yard for the past six weeks
we're one and the same.
ut was a smart dodge of Harper's,"
said John Peel, land he might have got
clear away but for that clever wife of
yours, Phineas. Mary suspected the
man from the first, and supplied me
from time to time with valuable infor-
nation. 1t is to her entirely that the
credit of the capture is due. Tell her
III call round and thank her myself to-
morrow. By-the-by, the gang of which
he was the head got wind of our inten-
tons, and man was dispatched with
warning. Harper doesn't appear to
have received it."
Then Phineas began to understand
things a little more clearly.
II suppose this will be it," he re-
marked, producing the note and hand
ing it to his brother. "You see, tho
messenger left it in the wrong door.
and I-er-I thought might as well
see the fun"
For some little time after Phineas
was of the opinion that he had made
fool of himself. Lately, however, he
has taken O different view of the mat
ter, and is never tired of relating how
he literally dropped on" Harper, the
forger, alias Schmidt, the naturalist,
next door.-Cassell's Saturday Jour-
nal
The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-11-05
TROUBLE AHEAD.

Vaccination to he Forced on Mon in SC.
Louis Factories aud Business Houses.
ST.. LOUIS, Nov. 2.-There is trouble
ahead for DIR. Max Starklof and the
city board of health. 1t will grow out
Of the boards alleged determination
to raise the city's vaccination percent.
age by extending the compulsory
system to many of the large factories
and business houses, where great
many men are employed, besides con-
tinuing it in the public schools It
has been announced, unofficially, that
the board will press vaccination upon
men regardless of their wishes, under
the pretense that it is justified by the
city ordinances. II such an attempt
is made it will meet with determined
resistance, and the matter will be car
ried into the courts and fought to .
finish.
The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-11-05
GEN. ToRRENcE DEAD.
The Noted Soldier and Business Man Passes
Away in Chicago.

The Noted Soldier and Business Man Passes
Away In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2.-Gen. Joseph T.
Terrence died at his home in this city
Of Bright's disease, with which he has
been ailing some time. His estate is
worth several million dollars Joseph
T. Terrence was born in Pennsylvania
SO years ago. His career is an example
of what self-made man can become.
Apprenticed to blacksmith at an early
age, he was an assistant foreman when
II. The civil war breaking out he en-
listed in an Ohio volunteer regiment,
was wounded at Perryville and led the
party that captured Morgan. the guer-
rilla His title he owed to subse.
quent period, when he was appointed
by Senator Chen governor) Cullom, to
command an Illinois militia regiment,
and distinguished himself in quelling
riots in 1877. After the war Gen.
Terrence took charge of the Chi
cago iron works and later became con-
nected with the Joliet Iron & Steel
Co. 1t would be useless to
enumerate the enterprises in which he
was interested, but his organization of
the Chicago Elevated Terminal rail-
way in 1891 cannot be overlooked. He
conceived the basic idea of the elevated
roads now in operation in this city.
Among his gentler attributes may be
mentioned love for children.
The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-11-05
IN THE SHADOW,

We walk within the shadow, and we fee
its thickcning fold
That wraps us round and holds US close, q
cloak against the cold:
The day Is growing somber. and the Joyous
light has fed,
And beneath our feet the road Is rough, and
clouds are overhead.
We sit within the shadow. and in that 81.
lence dumb.
To US In softened echoes remembered
voices come:
Dear eyes that closed in slumber once. dear
hands that Strengthened lie,
Awaken tender warnings as the day waues
slowly by.
We rest within the shadow. though the
hurrying people 60
On errands swift for gold and gain, be-
yond US. to and fro:
We have no care for transient things: we
wish no more to strive
As once we did: We rest, we dream, we feel
but half alive.
Our resting and our waiting. and our plod-
ding on the way,
With the sunshine Of the past casting
darkness on to-day,
With no caring for the future, while the
heartache holds us fast,
With no thought for any pleasure-ah! tits
well these cannot last.
For the shadow always lifts, and the sun
light CLOVIS again;
There are sudden CLEANS of brightness,
sweet clear shining after rain;
And we grid ourselves for action. strength
ened We arise and go
From the sanctuary outward, where the
feet tramp to and fro.
Life must have its sometime sorrow, but
the years that drift along
Touch the minor chords but seldom; there
are spaces blithe with song.
Sometimes we must face the shadow.
where the wind blows keen and cold,
But the shadow fades at dawning, and the
east Is fiecked with gold.
Margaret E. Sangster. in Harper's Maya
zine.