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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
Better Than Cotton.

There is very little, if any, profit In cot
ton at the price at which it is now SELL
ing. The cause of the low price is the
large crop-or the belief that the crop Is
very large one. AS long as the south
produces more cotton than the world
wants at a good price, so long will the
price of cotton remain below the profit
line.
Many reasons are offered for the low
price of cotton. but there is only one good
reason, and that is overproduction. The
sooner the farmers of the south admit
that this is the true reason, and give
more attention to grain, stock and fruits
the better it will be for them. The Gull
tivation of wheat in the middle and north.
ern part of this state is much more profit
able than the cultivation of cotton. Wheat
is worth now about 81 per bushel, and in
many counties the wheat crop this year
was an excellent one. Stock and fruit
would pay much better than cotton, take
one year with another. Georgia does not
produce enough meat and bread to feeG
her people. She produced only about
100000 bushels of wheat this year, ana
a very large part of the meat, both salt
and fresh which she consumes comes
from the west. She ought to feed her own
people, and would do so If her farmers
properly diversified their crops.
The impression that cotton is the only
crop for which there is a market is a
mistaken one. There are other things
which pay better than cotton at or 6
cents a pound. When the cotton farm
ers meet in Atlanta in December let them
consult with each other relative to grow
ing other crops than cotton. They must
see the folly of giving the whole of their
time and energies to cotton. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that they have good crops
of cotton this year, many of them will
not be able to pay the debts they have
contracted since the season for planting
the present crop began Paying high
prices for bread and meat and selling
their cotton at the prevailing low price
will soon make them poor, but if they
should produce their own supplies they
could grow cotton at cents a pound and
make a better profit out of 1t.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
a Queens Indiscretion.

In connection with the stories of Bis
marck's enemies among royal ladies the
following anecdote, which has never been
publicly related says the Westminster
Gazette, may now be printed: Queen So
phia of the Netherlands the first wife of
King William III of Holland, was too
great friend of the Emperor Napoleon
III, the Empress Eugene, and of France
generally, to take kindly to the great
chancellor Before the big war of 1870
and probably some time after the Luxem-
Dourg Squabble, there was an interna-
tiOnal exhibition in Amsterdam which the
queen visited. She was conducted over the
whole place by the committee, and as they
came to certain section one of the mem
bers said: Now your majesty will see
the greatest enemy of Germany" "Ah!
Bismarck she cried, with some glee
The members stood aghast and never re-
peated this rash exclamation. The great
est enemy he had to exhibit was not of
course, Bismarck at all, but only a very
much enlarged reproduction of either the
phylloXera or the Colorado beetle, which
at that time did a great deal of harm to
German agriculture.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meeting-Ancient Landmark Lodge No
23l F. & A. NJ.
Special Notices-Ship Notice. Georgia
Export and Import Company; Ship Notice,
Strachan & Co; The Old Reliable Stove
Headquarters, r. D. & VIM. baltimore;
The Mehrtens-Steeg Concert Postponed.
Amusements-Lewis Morrison In
'Faust." at the Theater Tonight.
Business Notices-Old Fashioned Rye
Nhisky-H. Solomon & Son.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Boys and Chndren's Overcoats-B. H.
Levy & Bro.
Auction Sale-Carpets, Furniture, Etc,
by c. H. Dorset, Auctioneer.
The Last Day of Special No. 6-Metro-
politan Clothing Company.
Want Your Trade-Lindsay & Morgan.
We Never Sleep-B. H. Levy & Bro.
Pearline-James Pyle, New York.
Medical-Dr. Charcot's Kola Nervine
Tablets; Hoods Pills; Cuticura Remedies;
SCOTS Emulsion; Terralne; Duffy's Pure
Malt Whisky; Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted For Rent;
For Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
Passed an Examination.

A charming anecdote is told of Prof
Darcy Thompson, the expert sent by
England to investigate the seal question,
says the Boston Transcript. While con-
Quoting examinations at an English uni
yersity, he learned that one of the stu
dents to be examined, a young woman
who was a candidate for a degree, was so
timid and nervous that it was likely she
would not do herself justice, and ne was
asked to make allowances for this. Prof
Thompson asked to be presented to her
before the hour for the examinations, and
after meeting he suggested that, as they
had few moments at their disposal he
would be pleased to have her show him
about the museum. She gladly assented
TO this, and they spent a delightful half
hour; when the dreaded time approached
the nervousness of the young woman be
came apparent. Finally she summoned
courage to ask when the ordeal would
take place. The conclusion of the story is
obvious-Ptof. Thompson told her the
dreaded hour was over. While they saun-
tered about the museum he had put her
through rigid examination, she had an
swered his questions brilliantly, and she
received her degree
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
Trick That worlsed the WRONG wnr.

The young man who is willing to be the
butt of his own story lives in Detroit and
subscribes more heartily than he ever did
before to the sentiment that honesty is
the best policy, says the Detroit Free
Press.
i've paid these night hawk backmen a
fortune he begins by way of letting his
conscience down easily. They've given
me the worst of it at every angle. and |
had no compunction in trying to give one
or the craft some of his own medicine. 1t
was in Buffalo. / had about reached the
end of my financial string and concluded
to come home because there was nothing
else to do. l had so gold piece and some
small change. There was nothing 10 waste
so ! determined to try a trick that has
more than once been worked on these noe
turnal hackmen. Boldly hailing one of
them, | asked what he would charge to
have me at the midnight train. When he
innocently proposed a double fare / offer
ed him the gold piece. He couldn't change
1t, and time was precious. No matter, we
could fix it at the depot.
Away we went with a clatter for IL
was a good thing. When he brought up
station there We're just five minutes to
spare. Running my hand into my pocket
l hastily sputtered: BY George, I've drop-
ped that coin in the hack Wait Just a
minute TIL L get lantern and We'll find
It Turning a second later I saw that hack
going up the street like an express train.
and set my Vaise down that I might
double up to relieve my laughter The
dodge had worked. He would 20 home
to search an empty hack Then / hurried
TO the ticket office and called for a ticket
stiD laughing as / imagined what my vic
TIM would have to say. But when | ran
my thumb and first finger into my Vest
pocket my face went long and rigid. ! had
aoout tlll morning before could telegraph
home for help
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
A shipbuiIder's View of 1t.

Mr.. Charles II. Cramp. the Philadelphia
ship builder. must be suffering from an at
| tack of jaundice he sees things which
affect his business so differently from what
the average observer sees them. For in
stance in a letter to the New York Jour
nal of Commerce a day or two ago he
said:
why is it that the free-ship doctrin-
aires first principle is a fierce hatred Of
the American shipbufder and why is it
that he can never discuss any question af-
fecting the merchant marine without saw
age denunciation Of every one who wants
to build ships in this country, coupled with
fulsome adulation Of every one who builds
ships IN Ensland?"
As a matter of fact there is nobody in
this country who hates the American ship
builder, and no American covers with full
some adulation those who have ships built
in England, or who build ships In Eng
land The truth is this Americans who
think there ought TO be free trade in ships
believe that if they were permitted to
buy ships in the cheapest market the vast
ocean commerce of this country would
soon be carried by ships owned by Amer
leans and flying the American flag. In
that case millions Of dollars which now
go to foreign ship owners, would be kept
in this country and would help to enrich
our own people.
And if there were free trade in ships
our ship owners would not have to go
abroad to buy ships. The ships would be
built here. The materials are cheaper here
than elsewhere in the world, and there are
no better workmen than American work
men. They get little better wages than
foreign workmen, but they do more in
day than workmen in foreign ship yard
hence the cost of work in Mr.. Cramps
shlpyard is about what the same amount
of work costs in a British shipyard.
Mr.. Cramp can build ships for Japan
as cheaply as they can be built in Eng
land or elsewhere in Europe, but he de-
clines to build ships for Americans as
cheaply as Americans can buy them
abroad. As long as the ship building in
terest is a protected interest Americans
will not be able to buy home built ships
as cheaply as they can get ships built
abroad. Mr.. Cramp wants too big a prof
it, He is like the manufacturers of plows
and other agricultural interests. An
American plow can be bought for less mon
ey in South America than it can be bought
for by farmers within mile of the place
in which it is made.
1t requires no more skill to build ship
than 1t does to build a locomotive. Loco
motives are not protected, and yet this
country manufactures them for nearly the
whole civilized world. Let shipbuilding be
made free and we should not only own
the ships which carry our commerce, but
we should build ships for the people
of other countries. Free trade in ship
building means the building up of an i'm
mense industry in this country, and the
keeping al home Of many millions of dol
lars annually now paid to foreign ship own
ers. Protection in shipbunding means that
Mr. Cramp and a few other shipbuilders
shall continue to enjoy large profits while
the interests of the country are neglected.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
Fruit and Vegetable Packing.

In pamphlet just issued on Marketing
Farm Produce" the agricultural Depart
ment at Washington urges upon all grow
ers of fruits and vegetables the necessity
of taking especial care with regard to the
manner in which their products are pack
ed for market. Success in growing fine
vegetables and fruits lacks great deal of
constituting all that is necessary to sue
cessful fruit and truck farming. The most
luscious products will not bring the best
possible prices unless they are presented
to the prospective purchasers in the most
attractive form. The people who pay the
best prices for the finest products of the
farms are those who must be tempted to
buy. The packages which attract and
tempt them must necessarily be neat,
clean and of convenient size. Above all
there must be cleanliness. Inferior arti-
Giles put up in nice packages frequently
command better prices than really good
articles carelessly packed. The peach and
grape growers of Georgia have pretty well
learned this lesson, and they now send to
market better packages than ever before.
Slin, it is possible that there is room
for Improvement. There should be I'M
ceasingt care to see that Georgia fruits go
10 market in the best packages that can
be procured. If this is done. Georgia
fruits will always remain the standard of
excellence, by which to measure the mer-
its Of the products of other sections of
the country.
The arguments which apply to care in
packing fruits, apply with equal force to
packing vegetables. It should be always
borne in mind that the articles are to be
eaten, and that people who are able to
pay for whatever they may desire win
not eat damaged products. Decay is the
great enemy to be guarded against. Heat
and moisture" says the department.
pamphlet, "are the greatest promoters Of
decay. Whenever possible, permit your
fruits and vegetables to cool from the heat
of the day before packing. Make sure they
are perfectly dry, and pack tightly, talk
ing care to bruise nothing Bruising lib
crates moisture, which in turn produces
decay. Either too tight or too loose pack
ing results in bruisng. In packing fruit
particularly, let the degree of ripeness in
each package be uniform. When hard,
unripe fruit is put in a package with ten
der, ripe fruit, the latter will be bruised
and all will decay" In storing the pack
ages for transportation, care should be
taken to see that room is left between the
packages for the free circulation of air.
Many fruit and truck raisers watch the
fashions" of the markets which they ca
ter to as closely as the manufacturers Of
fabrics watch the fashions" in dress.
There are said to be fashions" in pack
ages of strawberries, peaches, grapes
plums and the like, just as there are in
bonnets and gowns. Many of the best
| purchasers are whimsical. It pays to hu.
NOR their whims. Every producer can
not follow the fashions" of course. but
| every one can see that his packages are
| clean, neat and of uniform size and shane.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
The Grand old Humbug.
From the chicago chronicle Oeml.

The republican party is a grand old
humbug. 1t creates situation which
needs reformation and regains power on
the promise that IL will reform, and when
it has seized the spoils and increased the
taxes it leans back confessing practically
that II has no intelligent plan of reform
and that If it had 1t has not the courage
to carry il into execution. The party will
not retire the greenback, 1t will not au@
thorize the increase of national bank cir
culation, it win maintain the situation ex-
dctly as y KISS, a siSuatl tI "IicH year
mighty swift in the passage of a protec-
ton measure more drastic than any ever
before ventured by this aggregation of
GnoilSmen-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
Not Making ANY Fun over IT.

The Geographic correspondent of the
Daily Thunderbolt at Skedunk was nurs-
ing a sore thumb on his left hand, says
the Chicago Tribune.
How did you hurt it?" asked the SYM
pathizing friend.
Mashed il accidentally with a ham,
mer.''
Hurts a good deal doesn't it?"
Did at first. It's easier now
w ont be able to use il for a good while
will you?"
No"
Too BAD
Not so awfully bad. See this? It's an
accident insurance policy. One hundred
and fifty dollars. Got the money this
morning. More than / could earn with the
other thumb in three months Think I'm
kicking? Not on your lifer
He took the sympathizing friend out
WIN him and returned presently with only
$3.50 of the money left.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

7rom the Macon Telegraph DemN.

A rumor that he was dead once reached
the friends of Mark Twain in New York
OF course they instituted inquiries. and
the humorist heard about it. He was in
Europe at the time and he cabled: RE.
ports of my death are greatly exagger-
ated." The New York World thinks that
David b. Hill could as truly explode the
reports of his political demise.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

The Geographic dispatches brought on
the same day the news that scheme was
afoot to build a gold statue of President
Mckinley. and that Mr. Amos f. Emo of
New York had made arrangements to pay
500 900 of old debts from which he had
years ago been legally released. The Col
umhus (Ga) Enquirer-Sun suggests that
the gold statue should not be Of President
Mckinley, but of Mr.. Emo. The idea is a
good one. If President Mckinley repre-
sents any one thing more than another, it
is system of unjust and unequal taxation,
which amounts to a legalized robbery of
,fhe many for the benefit of the few. On
the other hand Mr.. Eno's name now stands
Tor that golden principle, honesty, upon
which all business and the country's pros
per!ty must rest
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

The matter Of annexation to the United
States Is not to be submitted to the ma
tives of Hawaii for the reason. according
to the annexationists, that the natives
are not competent to express an opinion
upon the matter; they lack the capacity
for saying what is best for themselves
Nevertheless, the annexationists think
they are good enough to be taken into
the citizenship of this country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

The Presidents message it is understood,
will be based largely upon reciprocity and
the currency. Reciprocity, 1t will be re-
membered. was once opposed by Maj. Nc
Kinley. 1t was necessary for Secretary
Blaine to smash a silk hat on the COM
mittee room table, when Mckinley was
chairman of ways and means, before that
gentleman would consent to put reciproc-
ity into the famous and iniquitous Nc
Kinley tariff bill.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
The Forthcoming Message.
From the HOUSTON CTex.l Post Dem ).

We are told that Mr. McKinley's mes
sage will deal chiefly with the currency
and Cuban questions. 1t will be an un-
necessary waste of paper and ink and
valuable newspaper space. The Cuban
policy outlined will not mean anything or
please the country, if it, as is intima ted
by this government, while the currency
policy under all the circumstances will
but show up as an "iridescent dream"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

It Is intmated in a Washington dispatch
to a Chicago newspaper that the Presi-
dent. in his message, will note the fact
that it may be found necessary to provide
additional sources of revenue, and that
he will advise that a tax of 81 per barrel
be imposed on beer. Such a tax was ia
vored by the democrats months and
months ago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

1t is about time for some sensational
story, embodying references to a dark plot
on the part of England, Germany or ia
pan, to come from Honolulu Congress
will convene next week, and the anneXa-
tionists will not live up to their reputa-
tons if they fail to throw a scare into"
the congressman at an opportune moment
for the furtherance of their plans.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

Absolute paper money with per cap
ita circulation not to exceed $50 was de-
manded by Milton Parks committee at its
recent st. Louis meeting. Milton Park s
crowd are numbered among those who
think that somebody owes them living
and that the government should pay the
bill,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

The effort to cheaper the Georgia rail-
road commission is meeting with opposi-
ton on the part of the state press. 1t is
pointed out that the commissioners now
receive really less compensation than men
competent to discharge the duties of the
commissionerships are paid for their ser
vices in the commercial world. While it
is true that there are a number of men
who would be glad TO get the places, even
if they paid only $500 year, cheap men are
not wanted in such responsible positions
While the matter is under discussion it
may be pertinent to ask, has the commits
sion been worth to the state what it has
cost? If it is worth keeping up, it should
be in the hands of the most competent
men?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

The Broughton street sidewalk, between
Whitaker and Barnard, cries brokenly to
the city council for relief.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
CURRENT COMMENT.
THANKSGIVING Aftermath.
From the Augusta Chronicle Dem.).

Members of the Georgia house are prac-
teal statesmen. They know how to get
holiday and pay for Thanksgiving turkey
at the same time.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

mo American citizen is now confined in
prison in the island of Cuba says a Ha-
vaua cable. Spain is preparing for the
sitting of congress. During the last ses-
sion of that body there was one prolonged
howl about the indignities and cruelties
suffered by American citizens in Cuban
prisons at the hands of the Spaniards. The
sDaniards have been busy spiking lingo
hlow-guns for the last few weeks.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

The Chinese residents of Chicago have
formed society for the purpose of APP
pealing to congress to grant them citl-
2enship. But they will not get it. 1t is
not only possible, but probable, that a
lot of semi-savages in the Hawaiian ISL
ands will come in for citizenship before
long, but the Chicago Chinese will not
be made citizens. They could not bring
in any sugar plantations with them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

Letters and kilograms should be ad-
dressed MORNING NEWS" Savannah.
Ga.
EASTERN OFFICE. q Park Row. New
York City, C. S. Faulkner. Manager.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

1t would be well for the northern papers
to note that the owners and operators OF
the Johns Island. S g. phosphate mines,
where 1t is alleged white laborers from
/ Philadelphia were badly treated, are BOs-
ton Mass, men. 1t is possible that these
owners who employ Italian padrones to
boss American workingmen and who
placed armed guards over their miners,
are prominent republicans. who howl over
the condition of the negroes, and contri-
butte money to foreign missions and re-
publican campaign funds Feeding white
American workingmen on sardines and
crackers and paying them sixty cents a
day would be considered by these Bos-
tonians a southern outrage" if they
themselves were not the authors of it; but
since it is their affair they probably hold
that they are doing a great service to the
working classes and to the south by pro
viding employment" The outrages on the
negro miners of Navassa. the attempt to
employ Chinese to take the places of ma
tive miners in Pennsylvania, and the act
ual replacement of Americans with Huns
and Slavs In various sections, are all
works of the republicans and the "holier
than thou element of the north.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

Reduced to its lowest terms, the plan Of
autonomy which Spain offers to Cuba
means You may do precisely as you please,
just so 1t pleases me
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29

The "MiddIe of the Road" Idea.
From the Birmingham News Oem.).