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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

Less than twenty years ago the House
was the free silver coinage part of con-
gress. IN 1877 the House passed free
silver coinage bill by vote of 1874 to "a.
But the House is no longer crazy about
silver 1t is the Senate that is now af-
fieted with the craze. At no time does
the Senate represent the sentiment of
the country on any important question.
The House is fresh from the people and
is close to them. In 1877 the Senate was
against the free coinage of silver. Now
it favors it by a small majority.
But how about the House-the branch of
congress which represents the sentiments
of the people on the silver question? There
are more than $50 members in the House
and it is estimated that not more than ITO
of them, at the outside. would vote for
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
What better evidence is needed that the
silver craze is disappearing? In less than
twenty years the popular branch Of con-
gress from being in favor of free silver
coinage by a large majority is now over
whelmingly in favor of sound money.
1t is a fair inference that as the House
is more than two to one in favor of
sound money so are the people. 1t is re-
markable that so many apparently level
headed democrats should waste so much
time in an apparently hopeless cause. such
as that of silver.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
Up-to-Date CampaIgninr.

Recently we published an account of how
a congressman from a northwestern state,
who was unavoidably detained at Wash
ington during Christmas week managed
to deliver a speech to his constituents with
the aid of photograph. A Pittsburg pa
per, which keeps track of the practical
applications of new apparatus, says that
certain congressman who can afford the
expense have caught on to the idea demon
strated by the man from the northwest,
and will, in the coming campaign, make
use of talking machines to spread their
speeches in their own voices. Thus the
vocal personality of the persuasive states
as he is able to afford machines. and each
part will speak with all of the unctuous
grace of the original. The statesman will
set up a receiving apparatus in his room.
and load it up with eloquence at his leis-
ure. He will be able to study his perora-
tons critically. and modulate any that
may seem likely to fall fiat. He will be
able to hire a brass band for so much per
hour of evenings, and thus furnish gratis
TO his constituents in the back districts
the music that should appropriately go
with his speech. Pathetic parts of the
speech can be made tremulous with emo
tion by the Introduction into the cylinder
of slow music This will come in where the
woes of the dear people and the grinding
heel of monopoly are dealt with. And then
when the glories of our blood-bought lib
critics are expatiated upon. the flight of
oratory can be made magnificent with the
inspiring strains of the Star Spangled Ban
ner
For joint debates the machine speaker
may be found invaluable. No question
fired by an inquisitive listener or by the
machine on the other side, will rattle the
speaker and make it lose its head. No
flights of eggs or turnips will cause the
automatic statesman to become voiceless
through fear. 1t will talk on and on, lust
as long as the crank is turned, and at
every moment its voice will ring out true
to it's inspiration. 1t is true that the mega
might become filled with bricks, eggs. or
an assortment of other missiles. But IT
would be but the work of a moment for
the hired man taking the apparatus around
to detach the megaphone and empty it.
The machine stump speaker ought to
be popular with Kansas reformers. 1t is
a great pity that the apparatus was not
brought up to it's present state of per-
lection several years ago, in time for the
well-remembered Lease-Weaver tour of
this state. Had such been the case,
number of spoiled vegetables and bad eggs
that took part in the campaign might
have served their proper purpose as fer
tilizers of the soil.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
PER SONAL.

Queen Victoria's greatest bane is the
enormous amount of original poetry
sent to her from all parts of the world.
IL Is all read by her secretaries, and the
best Of II submitted to her majesty and
personally acknowledged. On the recent
birth OF the royal grandson nearly half
a ton of manuscript verse was received
at Windsor.
Jacob Riis. the author of How the
Other Half Lives" who has given up
much of his life to aiding his fellowman,
lives in the country near New York, and
has lost his faith in rural humanity.
Three times in six years, just as he had
raised a fine brood of chickens to the
number of forty or more, they were stol-
en-, and he has yet to know the taste Of
his own chickens broiled.
Cecil Armitage. young Englishman
in Ashantee, tells of a strange West Afri-
can Joan OF Arc" who is equipping an
army for King Prempeh. Her appearance
is more impressive than beautiful, and,
unlike the famous French Joan, whose
features we know, this dusky amazon is
said to have only one eye, one ear and
one arm, and to wear her hair hanging
long. With one touch of her magic wand
she can bring armies together, and in
an engagement a brass pan Is placed be
fore her, into which all the bullets of
the enemy can conveniently fall without
hurting her brave soldiers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
Bernhnrdt,s Fun.

Bernhard, when she last played In
Omaha, did not find full houses, says the
New York Record. The natives objected
to paying 50 for seats.
One night, when the audience was es-
pecially bad both by the size of the house
and it's stupidity, resolved, at the least.
to make the most of 1t. The play was
Camille" But instead of speaking the
lines as Dumas wrote them, this impe-
rious creature made up the play as she
went along, using mostly for material
such opinions as from minute to minute
she had of the audience. She called them
unutterable things, and in a highly dra-
matte way. The innocents applauded
these sentiments vigorously, upon which
she named them something worse
In the last act she insisted upon dying
off the stage and being carried on dead,
Think of being cheated out of the last
gasps of Camillel
An Omahaite. who was in the audience
and who understood French, tells me of
this
He, at the time, made no objection to
the performance, being alone in his com
prehension. But later. the story of the
divine Bernhardt's scorn got about, and
IL is said that it will not be safe for her
to go Omahaward on her western tour.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

Judge Parker of the criminal court at
Fort Smith, Ark. made very striking
statement in his court the other day. In
sentencing a murderer he declared that
the number of persons murdered in the
United States during the last five years
was six times larger than was the con-
tinental army at the close of the revolu-
tionary war, and that the number muir
dered last year was greater than was the
standing army of the United States at
the outbreak of the civil war. THE issue
before the country" he declared, sis not
money or tariff. but whether we are able
to guarantee proper protection to life.
The people should demand of the courts
that they discountenance intrigue and
hair-splitting in favor of criminals" There
is food for most serious reflection in what
Judge Parker says.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
THIS is WORTH READING

You'll find that very few people mals
second purchase az store wher. r.
were once persuaded to take a di-a-o-.
article from what they intended n nm
chase Now this same rule sbouId =.
adopted by every person who enters
store to purchase Simmons Liver Regnl,
tor This medicine has become so ponuIa-
that many limitations are being Offered mn
der different names, because the dealer
are Inscriptions They chuckle at their
smartness, while the customer finds NJ
relief from his miseries. Beware Of tbesa
smart dealers. Simmons Liver ReOula,o-
Is the best household medicine. and mil
lions Of people have found new life and
health in taking the real article. MANI
call it The Old Friend. d" and "Ret,o.
than Pills" You will know it by the I2elt
on the package. Some people cail I.
the great southern remedy because !,
has larger sale in the south than an otber
liver medicines combined. You can min
your faith TO IL, it never disappoints.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
Down in the Gloom.

I was strolling over the mountain with
the old man Robinson, as he was familiar
ly known, when we came out upon mar
row ridge dividing a ravine as if it had
been a natural bridge, says a writer in the
Detroit Free Press. on the east side there
was almost a sheer fall of a hundred feet
to the rocks in the bed of a creek; on
the west side there were traces of an old
path leading down into the dark ravine.
I'll bet the moonshiners used to have
a still down there" l said. as pointed to
the path
They did, fur shore" he replied.
And If they posted their lookout man
on that mass of rock over there what a
show he had to discover the approach or
any revenue. spy and give warming"
That's whar' he was posted fur over
two years. grimly answered the old man
as he shaded his eyes with his hand.
II he knew the stranger was a spy"
continued, he might draw a bead on
YES; he mought."
And a man struck in the breast by
bullet just here would throw up his arms
stagger backward and go down on the
rocks"
"Sartin' to, sab"
And that would be his grave down there
in the gloom, and unless one knew where
10 look ne might hunt for lifetime ana
never find trace of the missing man."
That's how l figger, sab"
l laid down at full length and peered
into the depths. By and by, when my eyes
got used to the gloom, 1 made out some
thing strange lying on a great rock at
the bottom of the ravine. 1t looked to
me like the figure of man with his arms
and legs outstretched, and rose up and
asked:
there?'
II did once" he replied.
And what did you fnd?"
A dead man on big rock-a revenue
spy! Let's go on!'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
ORDINANCE.
By Alderman WATSON

By Alderman WATSON
An ordinance to amend that certain or
dinance adopted Jan. 4, 1896, entitled IAN
ordinance touching the board of tax as
SCISSORS and receivers for the city of Sa-
vannah, the compensation or salary of the
members thereof, and of their clerk, their
bonds, duties and powers, requiring tax
returns to be made and the manner, and
prescribing penalties for failure to com
ply with the requirements hereof, and for
other purposes connected herewith by
repeating section nine (9) thereof.
Section l. Be it ordained by the mayor
and aldermen of the city of Savannah,
in council assembled, That section nine or
the above recited ordinance be and the
same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. That all ordinances and parts or
ordinances in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed in Council Jan. %, 1896.
HER MAN MYERS, Mayor.
Attest: A. N. AIANUCY, Clerk of Coun-
Gil
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

A well known Savannahian. convert
from silverism. has made an interesting
calculation with regard to the drift of
opinion on the matter of free silver COIN
age. He applies four tests, the vote of the
senators on the Jones substitute for the
bond bill, votes in the House, the declara-
tions in state convention platforms. and
the newspaper comments in the different
states. BY these tests he concludes that
the strength of the silver and sound mon
ey elements in the next electoral college
will be 1877 for free silver and $50 for sound
money. The New York Herald few days
ago calculated that the free silverites
would have ITO. and the sound money ad-
vocates 269 votes in the electoral college.
The Herald's calculation left out Utah
three votes, which will be given to the
silverites. The next electoral college will
contain All electors.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
A Refuge.

From the Washington Star.
There's a still, cosey nook, with a novel
or two.
And generous armchair that beckons
to rest,
And a jar of tobacco. whose wealth I may
StreW
In and over the bowl of the pipe I like
best,
And there, where the incense of Incidence
burns,
Above the big armchair, the pipe and
the book
1t seems that life's labors, its devious
turns,
But lead, after all. to this still. cosey
nook.
The noise of the world babbles distant
and soft,
And the cannon's dull rattle, the trum-
pets rude blare,
Would mellow. should War hurl his ban
ner aloft,
For gentleness only can penetrate there.
TITS a spot that was ever a stranger to
fear;
A shelter 'gainst fate which no storms
ever shook,
And the hours are my comrades, who
whisper of cheer,
With the generous armchair the pipe
and the book.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY :. 1896.

The MORNING NEWS is published
every day in the year. and is served 10
subscribers in the city. or sent by mail.
at 800 a month. $500 for six months. and
$1,000 for one year.
The MORNING NEWS by mail. SIX
times a week without sunday issuel.
three months. SEQ; six months. Sioe' one
year. $50.
The WEEKLY NEWS. issues a week.
Monday and Thursday. by mall one
year Sl00
Subscriptions payable in advance Re
NIT by postal order check or registered
letter. Currency sent 10y mail at risk OF
senders.
Transient advertisements. other than
special column. local or reading notices.
amusements and cheap or want column.
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type-eQual TO one inch space in depth
IS the standard OF measurement Con-
tract rates and discounts made known on
application at business Office.
orders for delivery of the MORNING
NEWS TO either residence or place Of
business may be made by postal card
OF through telephone No. 30 Any irreg-
ularity in delivery should be Immediately
reported TO the office of publication.
Letters and kilograms should be ad-
dressed MORNING NEWS" Savannah,
Ga.
EASTERN OFFICE. % Park Row, New
York City c. S. Faulkner, Manager.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

Lord Dunraven is getting to be a bore,
having already proved himself a cad. 1t
does not make one grain of difference to
people in this country what complaint he
may hereafter make with regard to the
late yacht race. A committee of leading
men of this country heard with patience
his foolish charges against the Defender
syndicate, and let him down as easily and
as gracefully as possible. If he does not
apologize to the New York Yacht Club.
the club will probably expel him from its
membership. And nobody will sympathize
with him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
ORDINANCE

BY Alderman Garrard-
An ordinance, touching Estill park, and
amending an ordinance relating to the
same, passed May 10, 1898, by annulling
that portion providing for commissioners
for said park, and in lieu thereof, putting
said park under control of the park and
tree commission for the city of Savannah
Section l. Be it ordained by the mayor
and aldermen OF the city of Savannah, in
council assembled, That so much of said
ordinance passed May TO- 1898, as pro-
vides for commissioners of said Estill
park is annulled, and hereafter, the park
and tree commission for the city of Sa-
vannah shall have the exclusive manage
ment of said park, and shall be charged
with the care, preservation, improve
ment, adornment, good order and regula-
ton thereof.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all
money which has been, or may hereafter
be appropriated for said park, shall be
used, and expended thereon, by said park
and tree commission, and whatever I'M
expended balance may be in the hands of
the late commissioners, will be turned
over to said park and tree commission.
Sec. 8. Be it further ordained, That all
ordinances and parts of ordinances, in
conflict with this ordinance, are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed in Council Jan. %, 1896.
HERMAN MYERS, Mayor
Attest: A. N. MANUCY, Clerk of Coun-
Gil.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

The dispatches the other day gave an
account of a disastrous railway wreck in
North Carolina, in which two trains came
together head-on. Neither engineer could
be blamed, because each was running ac-
cording to orders, and was on time 1t
transpires that the fault was in the tele-
graph operator at a small station on the
line. The operator was asleep, and per-
mitted one of the trains which he was in
structed to hold TO pass him. The opera
tor. it seems, was fourteen years old.
Time and again the custom of employing
boys as telegraph operators on railway
lines has been inveighed against, but it
seems to be continued in some sections of
the country. There is no economy in en-
ploying children for such work, even if
their services can be had for much less
than would have to be paid to men. 1t is
said that the next legislature of North
Carolina will be asked to pass a law pro-
hibiting the employment of children as
operators in charge of Offices, through
which train orders are operated.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

There are grounds for the suspicion that
Marion Butler, the populIst senator from
North Carolina, is already a back num-
Der with his party. A day or two ago
Butler issued manifesto in which he
took grounds against a fusion of the pop
ulists and republicans of North Carolina
this year. From the manifesto 1t would
be judged that the matter of fusion was
yet to be considered, and that a good deal
depended upon what Butler advised. II
is reported from Raleigh. upon the au-
thority of leading populist, who is
not under Buffers thumb, that in more
than half the counties of the state meet
ings have been already held and terms of
fusion agreed upon by the populsts and
the republicans.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-Landrum Lodge. No. As. f..
and A. NJ; DeKalb Lodge, No. ., I. o.
o. F.
Special Notices-Ship Notice, Dahl &
Andersen; Its Rather Early. Appel &
Schaul: Success Is the Pudding of Life,
Jno. T. Evans & Co; Cabana Coffee. at
VIM. G. CoOper's; Last Two Days of Ed
ison's Microscopes. at Wheelers Drug
Store; Notice to Grand Jurors Superior
Court; Notice to the Bar, City Court Of
Savannah.
Military order-order No. 4. Republican
Blues.
Business Notices-Famous Cigars at
Wholesale. Henry Solomon & Son.
Medical-Johann Hoff Genuine Malt Ex-
tract; Duffy's Malt Whiskey.
Tobacco-Battle-Axe Plug Tobacco.
We Are Tagged Out-B. H. Levy & Bro.
Steamship Schedule-Ocean Steamship
Company.
The Wheeling Fever Came TO Savannah
With the New Year-Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Legal Notices-Application to Sell Real
Estate of Estate William W. Gnann, De-
ceased.
Cheap Column Advertisements-H
Wanted Employment Wanted For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
A Man Named Jones.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch Qnd).

Much of the future of the tariff revenue
bill depends upon a man named Jones.
This particular Jones is accredited to the
rotton borough state of Nevada, which
has fewer electors within its borders than
vania. If Jones is In a good humor he
may vote to report the bill without amend
ment, and may even vote to pass II so. But
if his silver wheels get to running over
night this man named Jones can load the
tariff bill with the same incubus that has
drowned the bond bill. 1t Is fine state
of affairs for the destinies of a nation to
"a
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
ORDINANCE.
By Alderman Watson-

BY AIueTMldn w dLSOII--
An ordinance to reduce the tax required
of proprietorS of pool rooms:
Section 1. Be It ordained by the mayor
and aldermen of the city of Savannah, IN
council assembled, that proprietors of each
pool room kept or maintained in the city
of Savannah for the sale of pools on
races shall pay as tax the sum of I'VE
hundred dollars per annum, instead of ST.
900 per annum, as now provided on page
of the tax ordinance.
Section q 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. 80 1896 and published for in
formation. A. N. NANUCYs
Clerk Of CounctL
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
"a Fool Policy"
From the Hartford Times Dem.).

Under the present foolish financial sys-
tenn of the United States, the government
issues interest-bearing gold bonds, and
to protect the gold redemption reserve
Local and some foreign purchasers gather
in sreenbacks and treasury demand notes,
that bear no interest, and with them draw
gold from the treasury to pay for the
bonds issued to replenish the treasury's
gold supply. Should the negro African
King OF Dahomey establish such a finan-
cial policy, the civilized nations would
probably remove him on the charge of
imbecility and cruelty TO mis- people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

1t has been alleged that Speaker Reed
desired that the silver issue should be
Etrangled somewhere down the corridors
before it reached the House. If such was
the case, Speaker Reed is not so big boss
as he used to be. For the silver issue is
in the House, and it appears that every
member who desires to go on record" on
the matter will be given an opportunity to
do so. However, they have a closure rule
IN the House. so that when the debate
becomes intolerably tiresome it can be
shut off
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

The report Of the adjutant general Of
the army. sent 10 the Senate day or two
ago. gives some interesting figures con-
corning the fighting strength Of this coun-
try There are now in the army and en-
rolled in militia companies a total Of H.
SIS men. The number Of citizens subject
to military duty is 1O.14s.5ss.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

The storm that has just left us had all
the appearances of being an out-of-date
West India cyclone. 1t reached Washing
ton just in time to escape playing in op-
position TO the esteemed silver orators of
the Senate
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

Representative WoOdman Of Illinois has
introduced into the House a bill 10 allow
soldiers widows who marry again TO con-
tinue 10 draw their pensions. That isn't
a good bill for leap year. It would give
the widows too much the advantage OF
women whose faces are their only for
tunes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

Arbor day in Florida falls on this date.
The school children usually take lead
ing to the report of the state superintend-
ent of education, TAB of the 2,4OO public
schools participated in the exercises. and
nearly 5000 trees were planted. There are
now nearly 1000 Arbor day trees growing
In Florida
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
No Remedy in This.
From the Washington News Den

The suggestion that gold be exacted in
payment of customs dues to the govern
ment presents nothing of remedial value
if the greenback be permitted to remain
in circulation. Importers would simply
draw out of the sub-treasury the gold
they would be required to pay in at the
custom house. The government would be
in the position of a man who would en-
deaVor to enrich himself by taking money
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07
Satisfies All Parties.
From the Philadelphia Press Der

What the public knows of Assistant
Secretary of State Edwin F. Uhl is alto
gether favorable and his appointment as
ambassador to Germany will be received
with favor. The country has not forgot
by our government in the Alliance affairs
when Mr.. Uhl was managing the depart
ment of state in the temporary absence Of
Secretary Gresham.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-07

Roentgen was not the first man to dis
cover the mysterious 'x-rays;" OF course
not. The fellow who did that long ago
has begun to raise his voice in all parts
of the world. There has never been
great discovery without these previous
people bobbing up.