davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
Truth Crushed to Death.

A worthy colored deacon, says Good
Stories, who had early impressed upon his
only son and heir the moral of the George
Washington cherry-tree story, was fortu-
nate enough to find a fat possum recent
~. He bore IL in triumph TO his dwelling,
ana, assisted by his son, cooked it 10 a
juicy brown.
Now" said he, "de best way ter eat a
,possum is col, so we'll jest LEI him stay
IN de pantry, and when mawnin come
ne II be mo juicier dan ever"
His son seemed sadly disappointed. but
he made the best of it, and both retired
for the night.
Ihe old man was up early next morn
ing, but the boy slept on.
On opening the safe the astonished pa
rent discovered nothing but bones in the
dish that had contained the 'possum. He
brought the droWsy youngster, to his feet
with one vigorous jerk, and, dragging
him to the scene of the wreck he SAID:
What does dat mean, eh?'
The boy fell on his knees and cried:
Daddy, l can't tell a lie; l got up in
de night and eat 1t Wild my little mouf."
The old man said not a word, but, drag
ging the boy to the front door, he held
him by the collar while he jerked piece
Of Notwithstanding from the side of the
Daddy cried the boy, sis you gwine
ter lick me fer tellin' the truth?"
No you kinky-headed debbil, you"
Numbered the old man, Il gwine ter frail
de hide off you for eatin' de posSum!'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
wanted to Do His Duty.

The lawyer had badgered the jury near
ly to death with questions, when the judge
finally took him in hand, says the Chicago
Post. -
you say you never heard of this case
said the judge.
Nary word of it, judge, till I came
into the court room,' was the reply.
And you don't know either the plaintiff
or the defendants"
Never see either of 'em afore to-day"
DO you know either of the attorneys"
Thank heaven, no"
ANY of the witnesses ?"
Mary one"
Would you be prejudiced by the reli-
gious belief or nationality of either party
TO the suit?"
Not a bit"
"Then 1 should think you ought to be
able, to give fair and impartial hearing
to the evidence and render a verdict in
accordance with it, without fear or ia
Vor.'
"Jedge, as things stand now, 1 kin do
that very same thing, but I'm afeard of
what may happen.
What can happen that will affect your
Judgment"
''Wel, jedge." explained the juror, turn
ing to the court somewhat contidentially,
IF the lawyers behave themselves I'll be
a crackajack juror, but it S my experience
in these here cases that one or the other
of EN- usually works in some smart tricks
that makes me so hOppin' mad all the way
through that it warps my Judgment, an
then it jest comes natural for me to watch
out for a good chance to give him the
worst of it, and l amt no kind of juror
to sit in that case. If you'll jest see that
the lawyers don't work in any blamed
foolishness to rifle me, l reckon you'll find
I'm about as good a juror as you'll find
amt fit to pass Judgment on who owns a
slice of apple pie
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

on terms more advantageous to the city
than those of the present contract. It
may offer to furnish more lights for the
amount of money it is now getting, or 1t
may offer to accept less money for the
same number of lights.
There are parts of the city which could
be better lighted by gas-using the Wells
bach burner-than by electricity. If it
should be decided when the estimates for
an electric plant have been received, not to
purchase a plant at present, would it not
be advisable, in making a new contract
for electric lighting, to contract for num-
Der of gas lamps? The gas company has
put up one or two of its lights in the
streets. and it must be admitted that they
give a surprising amount of light. BY
supplementing the electric lights with
gas lights the city could be pretty well
lighted for a sum considerably less prob
ably than is being paid under the existing
contract.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
PER SONAL,

One Of Max Nordau's suggestions is
that the Jews, instead of migrating to
Palestine, settle in America.
king Humbert of Italy is the most
heavily insured man in the world The
amount of insurance he carries is over
S,500,0O0.
Ellen Terry once received an act of
Kindness from a young London clubman
and though they have never met since.
she has sent him tickets regularly to ali
of her first nights
Gov. Ahumada of Chihuahua, Mexico.
has been so impressed with the fire SER
vice of eastern cities of the United States
that he has ordered modern fire engines
for his native city. o.. -..
When Tennyson, in 1880, wrote this in
Locksley hall LET the great world spin
forever down the ringing grooves of
change, he supposed that the wheels of
railway cars ran in grooved rails.
canadian artists have been invited by
the dominion government to submit de-
signs for statutes of the queeneand the
late premier, Alexander Mackenzie, 10 be
erected on parliament HILL in Ottawa
Mark Twain, in speaking of the Ger
man language the other evening in Vi
emma, said that 'it ought to be forbidden
by act of parliament to construct one sent
ence of 1l2 words with seven parentheses
and seven subjects"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
BRIGHT BITS.


whats veal, Benny?"
"Oh, it's the part of the COW we eat be-
fore she grows up."-Brooklyn Life.
-She-Why is it called the silver
moon?"
He-Because it comes in halves and
quarters, suppose-Chicago News.
When we discover the faults of our
friends we are happy; when we discover
the faults of our friends without being
happy we are great.-Puck.
She seems to be lacking in self-con-
fidence."
She is shockingly so! Why. she doesn't
believe she can plan a house better than
an architect. Puck.
-Minister-I once performed three we'd
ding ceremonies in twelve minutes.
Miss Saylor-That was at the rate of ff-
teen knots an hour.-Tit-Bits
-Friend-What did see? Not a single
bouquet at your debut
'Oh, that fool of a gardener didn't I'M
derstand me, and sent them to my house"
-Fliegende Batter
HE devotes his immense fortune to
the perpetuation of his memory"
You don't say sop
Yes, he left it in such shape that every
dollar will be litigated over" detroit
Journal
Has your Shakespeare Society start
ed in yet Miss Jones?"
Yes. We met at Mrs. Wiggles' yester
day. Miss Matilda Robinson read most
delightful paper on the Influence of Ro-
salind on Dress Reform. Harper Ba-
Ear.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
The Electric Lighting Plant.

Some figures published in the local col
umns of the Morning News yesterday, JUS
tifv a doubt as to whether the city would
save anything by owning an electric light
ing plant of its own. When the matter
of purchasing a plant was first suggested
it was thought by some of the city Off
Gals that a plant could be purchased for
about what the city is paying per annum
for lights, and that the plant could be
operated for about $1,000 year. If these
officials had been right in their under
standing of the cost the city could not do
a wiser thing from a business standpoint
than to purchase an electric lighting plant
1t turns out, however, that a plant would
cost about three times what it was
thought it would, and that the expense of
operating it would be at least half of what
it now costs the city for light.
1t must also be kept in mind that to get
at the real cost of an electric plant and
the cost of operating it a very considerable
amount must be added to the orinigal es-
Inmates. Assuming that the foregoing
statements are approximately correct it
is doubtful if the city would save a great
deal by doing its own lighting.
When we say this we do not have in
mind any cons. derable increase in the num-
Der of lights If it is absolutely demand
ed that the city shall have one hundred or
two hundred more electric lights, then
there is no doubt that the city would eff
feet very considerable saving by pur-
chasing an electric lighting plant.
The estimates that are now being made
on pant and the cost of operating 1t call
for $50 lights. The number which is pro-
vided under the present contract is about
| 800. We do not know, of course, what
The purpose of the Brush company is. but
it is not improbable that al the expiration
! Of its contract it viii offer to light the city
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
WHY This Hastef

Senator Lodge, a member of the foreign
relations committee, was quoted in our
Washington dispatches yesterday as say
ing that the first work of the Senate on
the assembling of congress would be the
ratification of the treaty annexing
Hawaii, or the bringing about OF annexa-
ton by legislation. There are reasons for
saying that the annexation OF Hawaii will
not be so easy a matter as Senator Lodge
seems to think. There is growing up a
strong public sentiment against annexa-
ton without the consent of the Hawaiians,
and it is very well understood that they
are against annexation.
Ex-senator Dubois, who arrived at San
Francisco from Hawaii a few days ago,
said in an interview, that although he
favored annexation when he was in the
Senate, because he thought the people of
Hawaii favored it, he is now strongly OPP
posed to it because he has discovered thai
the Hawaiians, almost to a man, are OPP
been consulted about the matter. A lot of
Adventures small lot-with the aid of a
United States warship grabbed the gov
eminent and set up an alleged republic
without asking the people whether or not
they wanted republic. These adventur-
ers have not asked the Hawaiians whether
or not they favor annexing the islands to
the United States. They are afraid to do
so. They know that if vote on the an,
nexation proposition were taken it would
be Overwhelmingly defeated. President
Cleveland understood the situation thor
oughly, and refused to give the adventure
ers any more recognition than he could
possibly help.
The Hawaiians have sent delegation to
Washington to defeat annexation. The
members of ii are men of Hawaiian blood,
and fully understand the wishes of the Ha-
waiian people. If they cannot get the
Senate to reject the annexation treaty
they will ask that the question of annexa-
ton be submitted to a vote in Hawaii.
There are only 3,OS6 Americans in all the
Hawaiian Islands-the whole population
being 10000. There are 5000 Portuguese
and 5000 British and Germans. Ex-Sen-
ator Dubois says that if the United States
annex Hawaii they will have to keep a
standing army there in order to preserve
the peace, and warships will also be neces-
sary. In his opinion annexation means a
peck of trouble for the United States with
out any compensating advantages.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

Snoring, especially that gourd-sawing,
rasping, nerve-shatterng variety which
destroys the sleep of every person within
ear-shot of the snorer, is usually counted
a misfortune by everybody except. perhaps,
the afflicted person. one would never sus-
pect the snore of good office; it is almost
inconceivable how anything good could
come out Of something so prolific of pro-
family and hard feelings in mortals WOO
ing Morpheus. Nevertheless a good, old
fashioned, robust, characteristic snore has
saved Milwaukee man from the peniten-
tiary. He was accused Of arson. A num-
her of persons swore that he was in bed
and asleep at the time the act of setting
fire must necessarily have taken place.
They did not see him in bed, but they
heard his snore, and they were willing to
take oath that nobody else could snore
in the peculiar manner that he was rasp-
ing it off. The jurymen, who had heard
snorers themselves. believed the witnesses
and let the snOrer go home.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
lNDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meeting-Georgia Chapter No. 8, r.
A. M
Special Notices-Notice in Regard to
Assessment of Real Property in Savan-
nah; Special Notice, Metropolitan Cloth
ing Company; Lecture by Prof Charles
Sprague-Smth at Savannah Lyceum;
Ship Notice, ]. f. Minis & Co; Selling
Bicycles Very Cheap r. D. & VIM. Latti-
more; Dissolution, w. d. Dixon & CO..;
Notice, W. T. Dixon; Bids Wanted for
Feed Harry Willnk, Commissioner; Pro-
posals Wanted for Electric Lights, Harry
Winink, Commissioner; oysters, Beck
mann's Cafe; Apples, George A. Hudson;
Dental Notice, DR.. S. NJ. Roach.
Business Notices-School Boy Tobacco:
The Girl From Paris Cigar; Terraline; Jo-
ham Hoff's Genuine Malt Extract.
Cottoene-N. X Fairbanks Company.
Put Your Foot in lib. H. Levy & Bro
1t May Sound Strange-B. H. Levy &
Bro
Mineral Water-Apenta.
Legal Notices-Citations From re
Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of Chat
ham County.
Amusements-Lewis Morrison in Faust
Tonight.
$9.75 for SIS Garments-Leopold Adler
We Welcome the Methodist Convention
-Falk Clothing Company.
Coal! Coal! Coal!-T F. Johnson & Co
Coal-Bond, Harrison & Co.
Gas Heaters-Mutual Gas Light Com
pany
Cocoa-Huyler's Cocoa.
Steamship Observation-Disclosures Steam
ship Company
Medical-Dr. Charcots Kola Nervine
Tablets; Cuticura Remedies; Hoods Pills.
Scotts Emulsion; Munyon's Cold Cure;
Lydia Pinkhams Vegetable Pills.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
The administration will insist upon

The administration will insist upon an
adherence to our treaty with Tunis, and
will deny the right of France to interfere
There is nothing in the world involved ex-
oept principle, and where that is the case,
the republican party may be expected 10
stand up for principle till the cows come
home. Now, If there were some sugar
plantations involved, as in the case of Ha-
wall, or some contracts for arms and sup
plies, as in the case of Cuba, things might
be otherwise. But since there are neither
sugar nor contracts, nor votes, involved,
principle will govern. Hurrah for princi-
pie!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

Germanys demands upon China are so
prodigeous that 1t is plainly apparent that
the outrages upon the German missiona.
ries in China are merely preteXt for Ger
manys seizure of Chinese territory. Had
there been no attack upon the mission
aries, the seizure of Chinese territory ana
franchises would have occurred anyway,
upon some other preteXt. Poor old China
is like the lamb which the wolf accused Of
muddying the brook. The German wolf
is hungry, and any excuse for making a
dinner is better than no excuse.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

1t seems likely that before a great while
there will be a house-cleaning of more OF
less famous murderers, the number in
Guiding Mrs. Mobiles, Theodore Durrant,
Martin Thorn and Mrs. Mack. The Thorn
and Mack cases may be dragged along
through higher courts for a time after
they have left the trial court, but the con-
fessions of the couple make it certain that
they will be punished in the chair or sent
TO prison for life. The atmosphere will be
purer when these criminals are out of the
way.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

This seems to be season of infant prod
igies. There is in Atlanta a 3-year-old
preacher; our advertising columns the 9TH
er day contained a notice about an evan
gellst seven months old; in Chicago few
days ago a boy years of age was arrest
ed for highway robbery; in New York on
Monday a, 19ryear-old chap was arrested
for forgery, and another years younger
was picked up on the street drunk.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

Some sage has said in effect that every
political body is governed as it deserves
TO be. There is thought in the statement
for the people of Savannah and of Geor-
eia. So long as the people permit it, they
will be governed by machine controlled
by few men. If the people will permit
their will to be overridden by the ma
chine, they deserve precisely the kind of
government which the machine will give
them
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

The indications are that the Dingley law
produced three or four thousand dollars
October. That is great, and the republic
cans will probably blow their big horns
in honor of the feat 1t is true that the
law stil lacks some eight or nine millions
of furnishing money enough to
meet the governments necessa-
Ty expenses; but the repub-
leans do not mind little thing like that.
The deficit has been only something like
$OcoooOo since the new tariff law went
into effect.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

Representative Mansfield of Mcintosh
county is something of a joker, and the
people of Georgia know pretty well how to
take his bills to legalize prize fighting, and
poker playing, etc, nevertheless Repre-
sentative Mausfields bills do the state
harm There are in Atlanta newspaper
correspondents who seize upon
these bills and make highly SEN
sational stories out of them. for
publication in northern newspapers:
and it occurs since every newspaper pub
Usher and reader in the United states does
not know Representative Mansfield. that
the stories are believed outside of Georgia.
70 the detriment Of the good name Of the
state.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

Postmaster General Gary, according to
report, is receiving many letters from
business men and others with regard to
his postal savings bank scheme. Up to
date, however, there has been no feasible
plan suggested as to how the government
could invest the deposits 1t would receive
so that they would earn the interest the
government would be expected to pay the
depositors
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
Wage Earners Against war.
From the IndianapoMs News Dam }.

The American people spoke loudly in IA
vor of the arbitration treaty but the SEN
ate declined to hear the voice. Now comes
William r. Creamer from England, bring
by 2,750,0O0 British workingmdn begging
for such a treaty. If the petition accom-
plishes nothing else, it ought to show the
workingmen of America that they have
at least one point of interest in common
that they are both DESTROYS of living in
peace, even if their lawmakers will not
see il.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

The refusal of the Georgia legislature to
take any action to relieve the state from
the disgrace OF the convict-lease system.
the iniquilles Of which aroused such in
dignation among the people and led Gov
Atkinson to draft a plan of reform. is a
striking object lesson in legislative in
competence. Unfortunately 1T is an iso-
lated one; Year after year we see legisla-
lures in different states playing with seri-
Gus problems in utter disregard of public
interests and in seeming security from
bubble wrath.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

Wherever there are two of three popu-
lists gathered together these days In polit-
of-the-roadism runs high, and they
swear great oaths of vengeance upon the
head of Marion Butler ana that they will
never again be led into "A fusion move
ment. The political market is closed just
now
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

Senator Hanna of Ohio, is reported to be
SICK; that is to say, ill. He was made sick
some time ago. according to the reports,
by the opportunities of his party workers
for more money. He is now physically IN
well.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
His GRAPHIC TaIe.

They hadn't met since the old college
days, ten years before, and of course the
benedict insisted that the bachelor should
come home to dinner with him. says the
Chicago Post.
Married the year after left college,"
he said, "and l have the incest little home
and the finest lot of youngsters that you
ever saw. l want you to come out and
see how nicely I'm fixed. / tell you man
doesn't know what life is until he's mar
"No?"
"WelI, should say not"
And so it happened that the bachelor
went with the benedict, and met the lat
ters wife and played with his children,
and made himself generally useful and
popular until they We're all seated at the
dinner table.
1t was over the coffee and cigars, after
the benedict S wife had left the table that
the benedict finally suggested:
Pretty comfortably fixed, amt l. old
man? Children, why don't you go into the
other room?'
VERY nicely, indeed" answered the
bachelor, replying to the first question and
ignoring the second.
oh, there's nothing like home life"
went on the benedict. willie, stop trying
to climb on Mr. Browns knee! He wants
TO smoke. Do you know, old man, laugh
when l think Of my foolish idea that
knew in those old days what happiness
was! Why, man doesn't begin to live
until. Maggie, put that nutpick back on
the ia bic. QUIZ Jab 1t IN your eye the
first thing you know. Yes, sir ] actually
have to laugh when ] think of it, Our
idea of contentment in those days was to
get a pipe and a book and bottle of
Scotch and lock the door and lie down
and. Would you mind moving your
coffee cup a little further back on the
table, old man? Tommy's trying to reach
it, and my wife would raise my scalp if /
should let him break one of her very best
cups That's it, Thank you. As 1 was
saying, we didn't know what ease and
contentment was in those days. No sin
gle man does. A man has to have a big
armchair and his slippers all ready for
him, and everything sort of restful and
quiet before. Now, don't cry, Mabel. if
you didn't want to get hurt, why did you
grab the end of my cigar2 Tommy. take
her in to her mother There, Willie, l told
you you'd stick that nutpick into your
hand if you didn't look out. Run into the
other room and ask your mother to put a
bandage on il. Let's see where was l.
old man? Oh, yes, l remember now. |
was about to say that there's nothing
homelike about bachelors curriers'
No" interrupted the bachelor with con-
siderable emphasis, there isn't"
The benedict couldn't quite see the rea-
son for such an emphatic assertion, but he
wisely changed the subject, just the same
-e-ar-S---
{rIc box
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

Hayu declares that it will not yield to
Germany; its "honor is involved" The
report from Washington sent out the 9th
er day. with regard to this country's prob
able stand in the matter, has given Haytls
backbone considerable starch. If Hayti
elects to stand upon its honor, by the way,
it may find itself with very small foot
hold
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
CURRENT COMMENT.
Tint Atlanta Candidacy.
From the Philadelphia Times Gnd.)

For association of ideas, that Georgia
man who wants to go to congress because
he favors lynching instead of a platform
should run on a scaffOld.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01

The gale which swept over English wa
ters on Sunday seems to have been quite
as fierce as any West India hurricane
which has visited this section of the
world in recent years. Indeed, the damage
appears to have been much greater than
has befallen any section of the American
coasts for a long lime. The probabilities
are that large number of lives have been
lost, and that property values mounting
UP into the millions of dollars have been
swept away. The full reports of the losses
will hardly be received for several weeks,
as much of the damage done was to ships
at sea, and to coast towns and villages
more or less isolated.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-01
Another southern Outrage.
From the Chicago Times-Herald Gnd.).

Gov. stephens issued a pardon to Henry
Jackson, a negro convict in the Missouri
penitentiary, the other day, but it was
Indignantly refused. Mr.. jackson said he
didn't propose that the state should turn
him of comfortable quarters just at
The beginning of a cold winter.