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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
The single Cron Policy.

For many years we have urged upon the
cotton planters the Importance OF diver
styling their crops. They are gradually
accepting this advice. and in proportion
as they have accepted 1T their prosperity
has increased. Mr. William e. Smythe,
in an article entitled "Our Great Pacific
Commonwealth" in the December Cen
/ fury, makes statement in respect to the
single crop policy that is well worth re-
/ producing. He says: wherever the pol
! icy of single crops is pursued, whether it
be wheat, corn or cotton, raisins, prunes,
| or oranges there are occasional years Of
well nigh riotous prosperity. But such
years are frequently more disastrous in
their results than sober periods of de-
preston They feed the flame of specula-
ton and raise false industrial ideas. I'm
der the spell of such times, the people
depart still further from the safe path of
self-sufficient agriculture buying more
land to devote to the favorite crop, ex-
panding their living expenses, and run
ming into debt. When this spirit becomes
the breath of industry no human laws
tenn is like a noble river fed by eternal
SHOWS. 1t never foods its banks with an
excessive flow, and never sinks below it's
normal stage. 1t GIBBS and flows with the
regular tides of the great commercial
ocean to which it is tributary, but alike
at high water and low it bears the ships
of men upon its tranquil BOSOM"
The foregoing is a correct view of the
single crop policy. In California those
who have depended wholly upon wheat or
oranges or raisins have met with disaster.
For time they were prosperous, but
their prosperity did not continue.
1t has been said that the destruction of
the orange groves of Florida was a bless
ing to that state. We are not prepared to
endorse that statement. But while thou
sands were ruined by the destruction of
the groves Florida was taught a lesson
which is proving to be very helpful to her.
Her people have discovered that many
other things besides oranges can be grown
probably within her limits, and in the
course of time Florida will have not only
her orange crop, but also other crops
which will sustain her people if the orange
crop should fail.
When the south depended almost wholly
on cotton a failure of the cotton crop
made her condition deplorable. because
she had very little with which to buy
supplies for stock and the household. AS
a general thing cotton planters are now
producing grain and hay and bacon, and
the money received for cotton remains
at home instead of going to the west for
those articles. The further the south gets
away from the one crop system the more
prosperous she will become.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
Flowing at a Mark.

An exchange prints an amusing story of
an Irish laborer whom his employer set
to hold the pillow:
Pat was new at the business, and the
first attempt was anything but success
full.
Look here" said the farmer, THAT
kind of thing won't do. The corn will be
dizzy that grows in furrow so crooked
as that. Fix your eye on something across
the field, and head straight for it. That
COW there by the gate is right opposite
us. Aim at her, and you'll do pretty well"
"All right, sir" said Pat, and just then
the farmer was called away to the barn.
Ten minutes later he returned, and. was
Mortified to see that the pillow had been
wandering in a zigzag course all over the
field.
Hold on there!' he shouted. Hold on!
What are you up tor"
And sure. sir" said Pat. II did what
you told me. worked straight for the
old COW, but the crayture wouldn't kape
still"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
She Held The Train.

Before I came to this part of the coun-
! try 1 was an engineer on a railroad down
SOUTH" said a railway man, according to
the Chicago Times-Herald. I'VE used to
4 make long run and we were pretty slow
about it. While on that line l had some
very odd experiences. 1 remember one
day when we reached the junction station
a woman came up to me and asked me to
hold the train for five minutes. She said
that her daughter wanted to take the train
to the city. l told her that it was impossi-
bic for me to hold the train for her.
" 1 don't see why she expostulated. I
think you might do a little thing like
that
Il tried to explain to her that trains ran
on schedule time, and, like time and tide
wait for no man, or woman, either, for
that matter. But she wouldn't have it, and
finally, just as we were about to start, she
shouted Indignantly:
Well, I'll just see about that
Il laughed, but soon ceased to laugh.
For what did that old woman do but get
right on the track about three feet in front
of the engine. She sat herself there, firmly
grasping hold of the rails with both hands.
The conductor signaled for me to go ahead,
as our stop was over But / couldn't do
1t as long as she remained on the track,
for L would kill her certainly. / called to
the conductor, and he, impatient at the
to him. He was as mad as / was, and
going up to the woman told her to get off
the track.
4 just won't, she replied, until my
daughter gets on board your train.
He pleaded with her some more, and
finally declared that he would be compelled
to use force.
Just you darer she cried. I'll sue you
for damages if you dor
This opened a new complication, and
we reasoned with ourselves whether we
had better remove her by force. Just as we
had determined upon a course of policy.
her daughter came up and, seeing the old
woman on the track, kissed her goodbye
and got on the train, while her mother call
ed to her:
:" Go ahead Mary Ann. You have plenty
of time, though, for 1 will sit on the track
until you get on board
And then, when Mary Ann was safely on
board and we were about ready to run
over the old woman if necessary, she
calmly and slowly got up and waved me a
goodbye, calling. as we pulled out of the
station:
:" I hope I've teached you fellers grain
of perliteness. I"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
index TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-Solomon' Lodge No. l, F. and
A. M; Hibernian Society; Mstletoe Camp
No. 4, Woodmen of the World; Citizens
Club.
Special Notices-Rings on the Water,
Jno. T. Evans & Co.; To Merchants and
Real Estate Owners, A. C. Rogers; Fire
works, Fireworks Store; Last Notice,
State and County Taxes, 1885, Swell New
port Juvenile Bicycles, r. D. & VIM. Lat
timore Huylers Candies, Solomons & Co
Notice to Water Takers; Special Notice,
Geo. c. Shivers; Don't Wait Till the Last
Minute, c. A. Munster; The Place to BUY
Your Christmas Wines and Liquors, Mu-
tual Grocery Company.
Amuseme 1ts-Grand Concert Tonight
for the Benefit of st. Paurs Parish Aid
Society, at Mehrtens Music Hall Tonight.
Auerbach's Finest Neckwear-B. II.
Levy & Bro.
Jewelry. Gold and Silverware-Leopold
Adler.
We Don't Hit Below the Belt-Falk
Clothing Company.
Smoking Coats, Etc.-B. H. Levy & Bro.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company; American Line; Red Star Line.
Save Money-Appel & Schaul.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; PERSONAL Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
PETITIONS FOR INCoKPoR4T7o=
PETTT1oN ron 1NcoRPoR17T1o2~


PETITION FOR INCORPORATES
STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY Or
CHATHAM.-To the Superior Court VI =,
SAID County: The petition of Frederoh
g. Clark, Frank H. Clark and r q e.
Vens of said state and county. and Wan
lam H. Stevens of Montclair, New Jersor
respectfully showeth: ''''
flrst' That they desire for themselves
and such other persons as they NAV ae
sociate with them, and their successo ns
to be Incorporated for twenty (2M vsar,
by the corporate name of Stevens Gu,
company, under such constitution and b
laws as may be adopted by them for M
government. 'i'elr
Second, That their principal place of d
ing business shall be the city of Savsr
nah, said state and county, in connection
WIN Whlch they desire the privilege Of
carrying on business in any such 9Th.
place or places as the extension and avi
gencles OF their business may reouire
Third, That the object of their assoc,a
ton is pecuniary gain, and the particria,
business they propose to carry on is tho
buying, selling and general dealing ~ L
railway and mill supplies and other sra'
cialties. SPe'
Fourth, That they desire to have %,
porate seal, 10 sue and be sued in said
corporate name; to elect and apDoinr s,,aS
nj
agents as may be found necessary or con'
Venlent; and generally to have, entov and
exercise all corporate powers and nriyi
leges usually appertaining to private cor
poratlons for business purposes.
Fifth, That the capital they pronosa IA
employ at present is the sum of tbjrty.svo
thousand dollars ($35 600, of which Ia NO.
cent. 90 per cent? to-wt, three thoussn5
five hundred dollars ($3, 500 has acfnsiia
been paid in; said capital stock 10 NJ
divided into shares of the par vamA !;
one hundred dollars (S1OO) each; bnt vour
petitioners desire that said corporation
shall have the privilege of increasing IN
capital stock. from time to time. nm ia
and not exceeding the sum of one hundred
Thousand dollars ($100,0OO to be divided
into and represented oy similar snar-,
wherefore, your petitioners pray that an
order may be passed by this honorable
court declaring this application granted
and your petitioners and their associates
: and successors Incorporated under the
name and upon the terms and with the
powers above set forth, and your petition.
ers will ever pray. etc.
ERWIN, -duBIGNON & CHISHOLM
Petitioners Attorneys
Petition for Incorporation filed in Office
this 9th day of December, 1896
JAMES K. P. CARR
Clerk S. c. c. c., Ga
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17

A Georgia contemporary, few days ago,
quoted a lumber manufacturer as saying
that Spain was one of our best customers
for lumber, and that war with Spain would
be a blow to the lumber industry in this
state. A reference to the trade edition Of
the Morning News published in September
shows that the total shipments Of lum-
Der from this port for the year ending Aug.
81 last amounted to approximately $4,000, =
900 feet, Of which less .than $4,000 feet
went TO Spain and her dependencies, ex-
ceptng Cuba. The value of the shipments
10 Spain was probably less than a quarter
OF a million dollars. We have not the fig
uies OIL other South Atlantic ports at
hand, but think il would be safe to as
sumo that the proportion OF shipments TO
Spain from them would be found about
the same as from this port. and that the
t'ate Of Georgia sends probably less thon
mar q million dollars worth OF lumber TO
spain and all Of her colonies, EXCEPT Cuba.
pof year
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
A Bft OF Life
From the Ladies Home Jourr

From the Ladies' Home Journal.
A maiden sat within the door
And sang as many times before.
A man to daily toll passed by,
No love nor pleasure lit his eye,
But when he heard the merry song
He whistled as he went along.
A woman by the window crept
For one who in the churchyard slept,
But when upon her hearing fell
That tune she knew and loved so well.
The flood of burning tears was stayed.
And soon a song her lips essayed.
Her neighbor heard the tender strain,
And softly Joined the sweet refrain.
Thus, all day long that one song bore
Its joyousness from door to door.
Clara j. Denton.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
Trlbute to Henrr G. Turner.
From an Interview with Senator Johr
M. Palmer, ,(Dem)

II Henry G. Turner had been nominated
for President by the Chicago convention
on a platform on which he Gould have
stood, he would have been the next Pres
dent of this country instead OF McKin-
ley. He ought TO have been nominated
there. This falling. he ought TO have been
nominated at indianapolis. / wanted TO
see Turner nominated at Chicago. IL
would have broken down the partition Of
animosities which stlll lingcr among the
rabid men OF the south and north. lie IS
an able, fearless man and could have
won.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17

The current administration at Washing
ton will expire by limitation in less than
three months; yet it is understood that
some of the silver democrats in the SEN
ate propose that nominations by President
Cleveland of officers to fill out these few
weeks time shall be combatted and if
possible rejected. The purpose Of the sem
ators is merely to give the President all
of the annoyance they possibly can; the
question of public interest does not enter
into the consideration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17

The Springfield (AIass.) Republican re-
marks: ''The Georgia legislature has
gone to the extraordinary length of max
ing women eligible to the office of state
librarian, How we do rush along towards
the days of equal rights" Our contem-
porary viii learn after while, probably,
that no length is extraordinary" for
the Georgia practical politician to go
when there is a promise of political in
fluence in it. The most remarkable thing
about the bill referred to. however. is
that one of its purposes-which, however,
does not appear on the facets understood
TO be the dlsplacing of confederate vet
eran, who offered his life and sacrificed
his health for Georgia when she sorely
needed defenders.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17

There has been introduced into the
Georgia legislature a bill ''to create the
Office of brigadier general of the militia
r. forces of the state: to define the pow
ers and prescribe the duties of such office,
and to provide for the appointment of a
staff for such officer" 1t ought to pass,
10 be sure! If there is any one thing
which Georgia needs more than another,
1t is a brigadier general, with a big STAFF
--all appointive. And the state ought to
have the brigadier general-and the big
staff; colonies, majors, captains and
things till you can't rest.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
A Latin-AmerIcan Law.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-sun Dem,

There is a law in force in the Argen-
tine Republic which provides that if a
man or woman refuses bona fide offer Of
marriage without good reason" the re-
jecting party must pay the government
a tax of $500. Such law would, UNI
doubtedly, tend TO check the reckless
manner in which young ladies are prone
to promise a man to be a sister to him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
Opportunity lacking.
Charleston News and Courier CDem

aren't there half a dozen democrats
in the United States Senate" asks a re-
publican organ, "who will bury party in
patriotism and vote for a reasonable rev.
enue bill?' Certainly. There are three
dozen of them. The trouble is that they
will not get chance to show their pa
triotism in that way for two years to
come, at least. So.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17

A political genius of the state of Wash
ington has evolved an idea which he says
would revolutlonize local government in
the interest of simplicity and the pock-
cts of the people He wishes to abolish
counties and county governments. The
cities, he says, could look out for them
selves, and the state could look out for
the territory not included in the cities.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
Ignorant Immigrants.
From the Columbia Is. c. State Dem

:
The north is imperiled, just as the south
used to be, by an ignorant and iliterate
electorate. and the south in brotherliness
should extend the hand of relief We hope
all the South Carolina congressman will
support the bill applying an educational
test to immigrants.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17

A medical society in Pittsburg. which
has been investigating the different modes
of inficting the death penalty upon con-
demned criminals, has reported that il
finds serious objections to both hanging
and death by electricity, and recommends
the use of Illuminating gas, the condemn
ed to be asphyxiated while he is asleep.
1t is proposed that the prisoner be con-
fined in a cell which from the outside can
be made air-tight. At the time fixed for
the execution, while the victim is still
asleep, the ventilation will be cut off and
the gas turned into the room. A bill to
adopt the gas method of capital punish
ment will be introduced into the Pennsyl-
vania legislature at it's next session. I
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17

1t would probably be safe to lay wager
at odds of 16 TO that the yacht Vamoose,
which sailed hence yesterday en- route to
Cuba from New York, to serve as dis
patch boat for New York paper between
Havana and Key West. viii be into trou-
BILE before the beginning OF the new year.
Newspaper dispatch boats are not recog-
nized in any treaty with Spain, or by the
rules of the United States bureau of navi-
CATION. The boat was cleared with yacht
ing papers. Boats clearing with such pa
pers are not permitted to engage in any
business or trade; they are supposed to
cruise for pleasure only. They may not
carry passengers. The Vamoose is not go
ing to Cuba on pleasure, but for business,
and that business-the bringing out of
Havana of dispatches-is one that the
Spanish government has thought best to
directly supervise, hence the establishment
of the press censorship in that city. When
the Vamoose attempts to set at defiance
the Spanish censorship, in Spain's own ter
ritory, then there IS likely to be trouble.
The expedition was gotten up, of course,
for advertising purposes; to exploit the
enterprise" of a New York paper. 1t
would be a much bigger advertisement for
the paper if a Spanish war ship sunk the
Vamoose, and Spain and the United States
became embroiled because of it, In other
words, the New York paper expects the
people of this country to back up it's ad-
vertising scheme and go to war with Spain
in defense of it if necessary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17

How is Dabbles getting along with
his DicturesT' asked the friend.
"Splenddly," replied the eynlc "He's
buying them instead OF trying 10 .painf
them himself. Washington Star.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17

A Baltimore inventor has perfected an
apparatus which he calls "multlplex
printing telegraph" with It. IL Is claim
ed. three hundred words can be sent per
minute over long distances, the machine
type-wrIting the messages at the receiy-
ing end.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17

The message President Cleveland sent
to congress about a year ago. and which
shook the world followed a duck hunting
trip, did it not?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17

The immigration bill which will proba-
bly, be taken up in the Senate and voted
upon this afternoon, provides that aliens
seeking to land in this country shall be
excluded If, being over fourteen years Of
age, they are unable to read and write
their native language or the language of
some other country, and with the further
provision that this exclusion shall not, on
the score Of illiteracy, apply to the parent
or grandparent of an admissible immi-
grant. 1t is believed that such a law
would operate against Russians. Hunga-
rians, Italians and Portuguese principal
ly, and that it would affect In a small
degree only the natives of the British
Isles, Germany and Scandinavia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
Engineers of the Navy.

The report of Chief Engineer Melville of
the navy, recommending an increase in
the number of engineers. seems to have
opened anew the discussion of the differ
ences between the line and the staff Off
GERS of the navy The jealousy between
the line and the staff is of long standing,
and breaks out in broadsldes of words
nearly every session of congress. The en-
gineer officers want more rank, more pay
and more help. 1t is well known that
there is scarcity of skilled mechanical
engineers in the naval service. Deaths
from overwork in the engine rooms have
been reported, and other deaths from the
same cause are predicted by certain
writers on the navy if something is not
done to relieve the strain.
The laws governing the navy are pretty
much the same that governed 1t in the days
when warships were sailing craft. There
has been no such evolution in naval regu-
lations as there has been in naval con-
struction. Our ships of war are now great
floating forts, filed with machinery, all
of which is more or less intricate and
guns themselves are surrounded with and
operated by machinery. Naturally, ex-
pert machinists are wanted on the ships.
Whether these experts ought to be Off
GERS with big titles, and of rank equalling
that of the men on the quarter deck, is
a matter to be discussed by the partlsans
of the line and staff in their controversy.
1t does not interest the general public so
much what the titles and relative ranks
of the men on the ships shall be as that
they shall be competent, and of sufficient
number
Engineer Melville expresses the opinion
that in the naval battles of the future,
"other things being equal. that fleet will
give the best account of itself which has
the best equipment of trained men in the
engine room" 1t requires no expert
knowledge to reach the conclusion that
Engineer Melville is about right. We build
great fighting mechanisms for the navy,
pay big bonuses for extra speed, and that
sort of thing. But these fighting mechan-
isms cannot be expected to run them
selves. 1t is reported that the next big
ship put into commission will exhaust
the supply of engineer officers. There are
other ships on the ways to be put into
commission before a great while. If more
engineers are not provided, some of those
now on ships that are already shorthand
ed viii have to be detached and sent to
them. In this condition OF affairs it looks
as If congress would have to provide for
more engineers or stop building ships.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-17
CURRENT COMMENT.
Is He writing Anotherr

From the Nashville American Dem,