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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
BRIGHT BITS.

-Tibbs: She is not only fine-looking
girl, but they say she has $4,000 in her
own right What would you do if you
had wife llkt that?
Lawson: Nothing -Tit-Bits.
A Distinction-Miss Outertown: Isn't
there a Mrs. Skinner in this village, who
keeps boarders?
Hi. Hubbel: She takes boarders, ma am;
but she don't keep 'em.-Puck.
Not the Fool He Looked.-"How much
do you reckon to get for plantin like
that?"
ABOUT $50"
"Gol durn himl He thinks I'm a fool
Truth.
-Patient-vot? Two dollars for takin'
oud dem teeth?
Dentist-Two dollars if you take gas.
Patient-Young man, l sQught you Vos
dentist. I didn't knowNyou vos a gas
gombany.-Puek
Instances in 'Plenty,-"What a silly ex-
preston! No more sense than the law al
lows Did you ever know man who had
more sense than the law allowed?"
Certainly. The jails are full of fell
lows who got there by being too smart"
Indianapolis Journal.
-Hilgard: Jason has got a model wife.
He was going to buy a bicycle, and she
persuaded him that a lawn-mower would
give him just as good exercise, and that
it would be more economical
Nixon: I'm awfully glad Jason has got
such an excellent wife. 1t is such a COM
fort to know that nobody else is in dam
ger of getting her."-Boston Transcript.
what! Whatr The irate old man al
most choked with indignation. "You want
my daughter? Why, sir" His rage got
the upper hand of him, and he gasped
some more. Rascal is no name for you!"
The young man was perfectly calm.
You bet it isn't" he said, slowly; land
if anybody says otherwise, there's liable
to be trouble" In the face of such SUI
blime gall what could the old man do?"-
Puck.
-Dlscouraging.-"It' jes' my luck said
Farmer Corntossel, gloomily I'm the
wust guesser a-goin'. The only sure way
fur a man to git along Is ter make up his
mind what he's a-gointer do an keep dom
jes that"
Have you had bad luck%'
''Nothin' else Last year 1 raised wheat
when I orter hev tuck in summer boarders.
This year tuck in summer boarders when
I orter hev raised wheat. Washington
Evening Star.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
1 Know a Bank.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
know bank, but not of sweet wild
thyme,
Nor dewy violets. nor sweet columbine;
Nor yet of cowslips, nor Of daisies fair,
Distilling sweetness on the jocund air.
This bank 1 sing of is no place to lie
In dreamy June and watch the changing
sky,
Through which the white clouds stately
sail away,
While perfumed zephyrs through the
woodlands stray.
Upon this bank there grows no Blade of
grass,
Nor shrub nor flower greets you as you
pass.
IT'S covered DER with no soft, messy mat,
1t isn't any such bank as that.
It's just a common, ordinary bank
That takes your wealth without returning
thanks;
One of those banks where no one has
graft
That's good for even a ten-cent oyerdraft.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19

In our Atlanta correspondence Of a day
or two ago it was stated that the governor
had made a study of criminoiogy. upon
data Obtained from the records of the pen
itentiary, and had reached the conclusion
that the negroes are growing more and
more criminal every year. Figures which
he had compiled showed steady increase
in the number of negro convicts, the ratio
of increase in crime being far greater than
that of the increase in population. The
governor, it is said, will refer to the mat
ter in his message TO the legislature.
The governors figures begin with a pc
riod Immediately after emancipation, and
come down to the current year, and show
that the tendency TO crime has grown
greater year by year, Notwithstanding the
inhicton of legal penalties through the
courts, and of recent years the frequent
visitation of summary punishment upon
perpetrators of crimes of a certain class.
The legislature could give its attention 10
no more vitally important matter than
this touched upon by the governor. What
shall be done to check the increase of
crime? What can be done to check It? Is
it possible to check it through legislation?
UDon the face Of the data, it would APP
pear that the negro does not appreciate
free government, or improve under it. Be
fore 1865 outrages by black men upon
white women were uhheard of; now they
are of frequent occurrence. Before the
emancipation the number of negro robbers,
burglars, murderers, etc, was compare
lively Insignificant; now the jails and pen
ftentiaries are full of them. Thirty-hve
years ago the negro gambler, loafer and
tramp were unknown; now they exist In
every village. Freedom, to the negro as
race has meant license, and license has
led to crime, the Jail and the chain-gang.
Instead of improving his condition, as
freedman he has refrigerated morally and
the retrogression is more rapid than the
increase in population. The northern
states lifted the negro to the plane
of citizenship without preparation on his
part or without his having done anything
10 merit or warrant the high privilege.
The white race achieved civilization and
citizenship through long years of suffer
ing and privations, and by the exercise Of
a high order of intelligence vouchsafed by
the Creator: the black race was raised by
the slack of the raiment upon the point of
bayonet and set up alongside of the
white Being totally untitled for the posi-
ton, it could not be expected that the ne
gro would maintain himself in it. 1t is inn
possible for an uncivilized and inferior
race TO acquire in day, by proclamation,
the civilization which it took the higher
race thousands of years to work out. The
figures compiled by Gov. Atkinson may,
indeed, be used as the basis for an argu-
ment upon the futility of attempting TO
make one set of laws applicable to two
radically different races.
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Personal.


Miss Annie S. Peck, the mountain
climber, has just accomplished the feat Of
climbing every peak Of the White noun
tains.
1t is rumored that in case President
Gates of Amherst College resigns he will
be succeeded by the Rev. RI. C. NJ. Lam
son, of Hartford, Conn, an alumnus and
trustee Of Amherst.
#. V. Woodhouse, Of Albury, Surrey
England, who is now ninety years Of age,
is the only survivor Of the twelve apostles
chosen by Edward Try ing when he organ
lied the Catholic Apostolic church.
Something like fifty prominent scien-
lists, who came over 70 attend the recent
meeting of the British association for the
advancement of science, in Toronto, are
making an extended tour of Canada, many
OF them being accompanied by their wives.
They have gone as far west as the Pacific
coast. Lord Kelvin, Lady Kelvin, Sir John
Evans, Lady Evans, Lord Lister, Prof
Ramsay, Sir George Scott Robertson,
Prince Krapotkin, DIT. J. Scott Kettle and
Prof Silvanus F. Thompson are in the
party.
DIR. w. H. Drummond of Montreal, the
author of THE Wreck of the Julie
Plante" and other French-Canadian dia-
lect poems, is a native Of Dublin, Ireland,
and has been in Canada since he was 8
years of age. He has always been an ar
dent sportsman, ana IS one of the best
fishermen in Canada. This sport has car
ried him into the backwoods and among
the lakes and streams where salmon ana
trout abound, and where he learned the
legends and the tongue of almost the old
est white people on the continent. He
knows their speech perfectly, and his
poems are many. But they have not sift-
ed far out into the world.
William Spohn Baker, who has just
died in Philadelphia, was the owner of a
collection of Washingtoniana that many
judges pronounced the most complete in
existence. 1t consists of engraved portraits
and biographies of Washington, together
with books of reference on Washington's
time. These books" says the Philadel-
phia Ledger, Numbering about five hun
dred, together with about one thousand en-
cravings, principally portraits, and nine
hundred medals, will, it is believed, now
go to enrich the collection of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, of which for
years he was an active member, holding
at one time the office of vice president.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
.he Turk ana the IrIshman.

Among the Turks employed on the line
of the first Turkish railway, says Har-
pers Round Table, was an old man who
had a son who was a soldier in one of the
regiments in the garrison at Rustchuk,
whom he had not seen for a good many
months. Each day the regular through
train arrived and left, but the old Turk
never got the chance to run up to Rust
chuk 10 see his son, for the train just
came and went at the very moment when
he was engaged at his midday prayer.
And so the days and the weeks passed.
and the old man, between his devotion to
his religious duties and his love for his
son, was left lamenting the inconvenient
arrangement of the railway timetable
One day he cOnfded his trouble to the Irish
foreman, whose name was Flynn.
'Ah! my friend, you do not know how
sore my heart is"
Wen, bahia (father), what is the matter
with you now?" asked Flynn.
well, you see,'' said the old Turk, my
son, whom you know, IS up at Rutschuk,
and have not seen him for so many
months, and his mother is longing to hear
something about him"
Why don't you get leave, then, and go
to see him?" said the practical Irishnan.
How can r." replied the old man.
Doesn't the train come in and go away
while I am a prayers? Allah wills il that
I should not see him.
And so the time continued to pass, the
old man telling Flynn how his heart was
weary TO see his son. It happened one day
that, as the train drew up at the station,
the old man was engaged at his devotions
on his prayer-carpet close to the line, an
empty truck with the door run back had
stopped just opposite where he was on his
knees and his forehead to the ground, and
the Irishmdn came along. Seized by a sud-
den inspiration, he caught up the old Turk,
prayer-carpet and ALL and landed him in
the truck just as the train moved off. Two
days after the old man came back by the
down train, his face beaming with pleas
ure
"Ah! my. friend" he said, as he saw
Flynn on the platform, only for you L
should never have seen my son. 1t must
have been Allah who put it into your heart
to throw me into the train. May he reward
Won for iti''
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19

Friend Barnett is a wonderful fisher
man. remarked Supt Corran of the New
Orleans and Northeastern railway, speak,
ing of the general freight and passenger
agent of that road, says the New Orleans
Times-Democrat. 81 was just listening to
a long account of the number of fish he
caught while at Gulfport La. He has just
returned, and he said that Spanish mack
erel were biting like mad at the port, and
that he caught in three hours eighty-nine
of the fish, and had it not been for Sc
we're electric storm he would have caught
1000. A bolt of lightning struck his reel,
melted the metal and then followed his
line into the water and exploded. Bar
nett says that when it exploded the con-
cussion killed the entire school of mack
erel, and that within five minutes the sur
face of the bay was covered with dead
fish. The only one of the lot which es-
capped was the one on the end of his line.
1t had swallowed the hook. The electric
fluid had Strengthened the hook, forced
the point out of it's stomach, and the cur
rent, following the steel, had passed
through the fish into the water, with the
result stated. 1 always knew Barnett was
a good fisherman, but 1 never thought he
had attained past masters degree in
the art"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
TWENTY PAGES
index TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Special Notices-Congregato Mickva
Israel; The Cuban Styx Cigar, Hunter
Pearce & Battey, Distributing Agents; A
Card; Violin instruction, Franz Hubner
]. J. Gleason With Sig. Gardner; Savan-
nah Steam Laundry; Head Gear Meyere
& Franck; Hundred Years of Grocery
Selling, The Southern Grocery Company
Work Turned Out, E. & w. Laundry
There Are Others, Conida; No Need OF
Further Delay, DR.. I. IA. Schwab & Son.
Official Repairer League of American
Wheelmen; We Have Cornered the Savan-
nah Bicycle Market, r. D. & VIM. Latti-
more; Tivoli Beer.
Business Notices-Wines and Liquors at
Popular Prices, Belsinger & Co.
Advance Exhibit of Fail Dress Goods
and Silks-Leopold Adler
Ladies Only Can Appreciate Our Ladies'
Departmental. II. Levy & Bro.
A Peerless Display of New Dress Goods
AT Gutman's.
Guaranteed School Shoes-At Byck's.
Fail Suits-B. II. Levy & Bro.
The Preferred Store Leads-Eckstein's.
Columbia Wheel-T. A. Bryson, Agent.
$40 Gas Range-Mutual Gas Light Com
pany.
Boys and Girls School shoes-Charles
Marks.
Wines and Brandies-w. A. Wander
cooks Pure California Wines and Bran
dies.
Safe School Shoes-Geil & Quint
Mothers of Boys, Have You Been In to
See Us Yet?-Metropolitan Clothing Com
pany.
Only Brave Men VIII Attempt to Walk
the Streets With Straw Hattie Metro
politan Clothing Company.
Autumn Clothing-Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Our Fall Purchases-Daniel Hogan.
Look Before You Leap-The Savannah
Shoe Factory.
Second to None We Have Met the De-
mand-W. E. Wimpy.
Don't Overlook Our Line This Fall
Walsh & Meyer.
Shoes, Stationery, Books, Etc.-M. A.
Stokes.
Our Special style of Square Pianos-L.
& B. S. NJ. H.
AS a F'lyer-Savannah Carriage and
Wagon Company.
Beef-Liebig's Extract of Beef
Medical--Wine of Cardui; Hoods Sarsa-
parilla; Worlds Dispensary Prepare
tons; Erie Medical Company; S. S. s.;
Cuticura Remedies.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal, Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
Settled the Question of Age.

D. w. Caldwell, the late president of the
Lake Shore, and John F. Miller, general
superintendent of the Southwest system
of the Pennsylvania, were friends all their
lives, but there was one thing on which
they could never agree, and that was as
to which was the older, says the ST. Louis
Globe-Democrat. One day they were driv-
ing up to CA.dwelis country home in a
buggy.
John" said the Lake Shore man, you
have always insisted that am older than
you"
'Why, of course. was born in"
That's all right, John; if you are
younger than am supp 'se you op, n the
gate"
Without a word Mr.. Miller climbed from
the buggy, opened the gate, and Mr.. Cald
well drove through. And then he did not
stop, but went on to the house. leaving
Mr.. Miller. to follow through the dark and
mud as best he could. When the house
was reached the soil was scraped off Mr..
Miller and nothing more was said. He
had proved that he was the younger man
of the two.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
His Sway Ended Forever.

The man looked as if he had lost his
last friend says the Cleveland Leader He
sat with bowed head and weary eyes, and
he made awful looking figures in the sand
with his cane.
''Iave you lost your job?" was asked,
in sympathetic tones.
mo; it is not that"
Some dear friend has, perhaps, been
laid away?"
mo; I have not been to a funeral"
Has the market turned against your"
81 never speculated in my life"
Perhaps you are sad because others
have passed you in the race for wealth
or fame"
Il don't trouble myself over such trifes.
/ have enough of tkis worlds goods for
any man, and what is fame when the
clods begin tumbling in upon a fellow s
coffin?"
"WeIl, what the dickens is the matter
with you, anyhow"
Here; come a little closer and I'll tell
you. The Sunday paper published a pic
ture of my wife and labeled her the most
beautiful woman at Bath Beach,
''Well, is that thing to feel bad
about?"
rs it? Why, man, I love hertz
"Of course. All the more reason why
you should be proud instead of sitting here
like boy with a broken toy"
'Oh, say, ne groaned, you still have
to learn the lesson of life. That picture
and those few words have wrecked my
happiness. Do you suppose the most
beautiful woman at Bath Beach will ever
again be satisfied with the admiration and
affection of one ordinary man? Do you
suppose she will ever again be willing to
put up with anything but a box att the
opera? Do you suppose that she will ever
again permit me to occupy the high seat
in our spider phaeton? Pahp
And he savagely threw his cigar Stub
into the water
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
Thenter Nuisnnces

With the coming of the amusement
season the high hat looms up again. 1t
spoils even ones anticipations of pleas
ant evenings entertainment to think Of
what is before him, or what will be before
him when he takes his seat in the theater
or in public hall. In view of the general
if not universal adverse criticism, it is
difficult to imagine how any lady can be
so rude as to appear in headgear that is
a standing, towering nuisance to others
who have paid for the privilege of wit
Messing the performance, or whatever en-
tertainment may be presented. If all
ladies knew what some do, that men feel
kindly toward those of the gentler sex
who appreciate the situation and leave
their hats at home, or take them off when
they reach the theater, they would not
perhaps wear their hats where they are
so obviously out of place.
But the high hat is not the only nuisance
to which quiet people who so to the the
alter for an evenings pleasure, are sub
jected. The men who go out between
The acts Ito see man" are a greater
nuisance than the women with the high
hats. They disturb those near them by
passing back and forth, and when they
return they disgust them with the smell
OF beer whisky, onions, cheese, and last,
but not least. cloves. But the horror
Of horrors, the prime nuisance Of all, is
the combination of the high hat and the
cheese and beer smell. Sometimes the wo-
man with~the high hat has for her escort
a man who cannot do without drink AT
such times not only are the eyes Of the
refined theatergoers useless, but they
heartily wish their noses. might be in the
same condition. Our theater is not beer
garden which people who wear their hats
and who smell of beer and "sweitzer
kase" patronize, but It is the resort Of
those who are accustomed to the ameni-
ties of social life. If such people, who
wear hats and run in and out during the
performance, want TO see the play, let
them go up into the ''cock-Ioft."
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The Truth Not wanted.

To those republican newspapers and
leaders who have been persistent in their
efforts to make the people believe that the
improved business conditions which are
attracting attention and causing comment
are due TO the Dingley tariff law the recent
article of Speaker Reed, on the causes Of
prosperity, must have been a great disap-
pointment. Mr.. Reed is the brainiest public
man in the republican party, and what he
says on public questions has greater in
fuence than the utterances of any other
republican leader He does not think the
recent tariff legislation has had much to
do with bringing about better times. He
says, in effect that we are bound to have
periods of prosperity and periods of de-
preston, and that having practically gone
into bankruptcy during the recent period
Of depression, and having gone through
the process of liquidation and found out
who owned the property, we were ready
for a period of prosperity. Prosperity came
because, confidence having been restored,
we were ready for it.
President Mckinley would like It to be
believed that the Dingley tariff brought
tend TO make his administration popular,
and would assist him in getting a renomi-
nation. Mr.. Reed never has much conf
dence in Mr. McKinley's craftsmanship
and he seldom misses an opportunity to
call attention to its weak points. He has
not yet given up all hope of being the
candidate Of his party for President, and
from now until the meeting Of the next ma
tional republican convention, he viii be a
pretty sharp critic Of Mr.. Mckinley and
his administration.
But while criticising the public acts and
the administration of Mr.. Mckinley ne
will take care to say nothing in respect to
public affairs that will not appeal to the
common sense of the people
His paper on the cause of the return of
prosperity made a much better impression
on the public mind than anything that
either Mr.. Mckinley or his friends have
said on the same subject IL he continues
to take a common sense view of things he
VIII, in all probability, stand a good chance
of getting the Presidential nomination of
his party in 1900, Notwithstanding the fact
that Mr.. Mckinley has the assistance of
the executive branch of the government.
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That Indiana Lynching.
From New York Mail and Express (Rep.).

The Indiana authorities will, of course,
take vigorous steps in the matter. But
that the ringleaders in this outrage
may be adequately punished, may well
be doubted when local feeling in de-
Tense of the mob is considered. Such a
crime for such a cause leads one to won
der where and when the epidemic of mob
violence which has ragged throughout the
country for months with unprecedented
virulence, is to cease. Meanwhile We
must hang our heads in shame for Indi-
ana, and listen, without reply, to the Bit
ter comments of the men of the south upon
their critics.
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The south and Higher Education.

The fact that the percentage of young
men in the south who seek a higher edu-
cation is smaller than it is in the north
has been the subject of considerable news
paper comment recently. By some the rea-
son is said to be a good deal of hostility
in the south to higher education. We
do not think this reason the true one In
fact, we doubt If among educated south
ern people there is much hostility to higher
education.
1t seems to us that the real reasons
are that the great majority of southern
boys have to go to work as soon as they
are out of the common schools. There
are comparatively few rich families In the
south-families which can afford to do
without the assistance of their young men
and hence the field from which college
students are drawn is much small
Ter than at the north. It is true
that there are many poor young
men in northern comeges and universities,
but although they are poor, and have to
earn their own expenses, they can be
spared from home. Many youths in every
part of the south who would gladly work
their way through college are denied the
privilege of doing so by the demand for
their services at home.
There is another thing against the
south. 1t is the want of great UNIVERSE
ties which attract students because of
their greatness-the numerous and varied
advantages they offer. The south has ex-
cellent colleges, but nothing to compare
with Harvard. YALE Princeton, Column
bia, the universities of Chicago and Mich
igan and other similar institutions Such
institutions inspire people within the
sphere of their influence with the desire
for higher education.
As the south grows richer her educa.
tonal institutions will become greater,
and then the percentage of southern youth
seeking higher education will not fall be-
low that of the north.