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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17
why Not work in HARMONY.

If tho mayor aldermen and commits
missions were TO work together in har-
mony they could do a great deal more in
the way of improving the city, saving the
public money and keeping up the stan
dard Of the departments. than it is posi-
BILE for them 70 DO ~ feeling Of political
hostility is permitted to influence their ac-
tons. The fact that the commissions are
to ba a part OF the city government for at
least another year, and it may be for
much longer time, ought 20 be accepted
and utilized for the public good to the
greatest possible extent.
There is one little reform which would
be conducive to comfort, cleanliness and
GOOD order, and which would cost little or
nothing. namely, a daily police report on
the condition OF each policemans beat.
The report could be made on a little pocket
tablet and the leaves containing the re-
port Of the accidents, condition of the
streets and sidewalks, railroad tracks,
electric wires and posts, fences. hydrants,
etc, and on Sundays whether saloons are
open or closed, handed to the chief or his
representative every day. Reports SINH
lar TO the foregoing are required from po-
lcemen in the cities and town of France
and they have a most excellent result
They would give a policeman here some
thing to 90 besides walking up and down
his beat wondering what chance there
would be for holding his place if a new
chief were to be appointed or looking for
a place to get drink without being OBJ
served. They would make policemen
guardians of the public interests as well
as preservers of the peace. If people
threw waste paper or banana skins in the
streets the offenders would either have to
pick them up and put them in the recep-
tacles provided for them or they would be
arrested and fined. The policemen now
actually get tired of doing nothing.
Doubtless there are many little things
in municipal affairs which are not now
attended to because of a lack of knowledge
in respect to them on the part of those
whose duty it is TO attend to them. The
policeman and his tablet could supply
this knowledge. There is no doubt that
with a good understanding between the
commissions and the mayor and aldermen
many little reforms would be inaugurated
which would cost nothing, but which the
people would appreciate.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17

1t has now been more than month, in,
deed nearly two months, since those five
alleged thieves were lynched by mob at
Versailles. Ind. The governor of the
state, with a great show of righteous in
dignation, declared that the lynchers
should be punished, and offered a reward
of $3.50 each for the apprehension of the
ripgleaders of the mob, with evidence to
convict. Nevertheless, nothing appears to
have been done which looks like bringing
the lynchers into court and sending them
to the gallows.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17

A very remarkable story of a sane man
being "railroaded" into an insane asylum
comes from White Plains N. Y. The vic
tim was a well-kuown business man of
the name of White. 1t appears that Mr..
White made over his property to his wife,
and upon her application he was taken
10 the asylum, where he was confined for
two days. The commitment was secured
through the apparent connivance of two
physicians, who certified that the man
was crazy. Upon examination before
Judge Lent it was clearly shown that MIR.
White was not only sane, but that he was
the victim of a plot, and the judge apollo
gzed to him for having committed him
for two days prior to the investigation
Mr. White viii take steps to recover dam
ages from the physicians who certified that
he was of unsound mind 1t is most as
founding that sane man can be thus
treated in the great and enlightened state
or New York. 1t would almost seem that
ones personal liberty were not safe there.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17
Counteract the Plots.
From Memphis commercial-Appeal Den

The McKinleys and the Dingleys at home
and abroad are doing all that in them lies
to involve the world in wars commercial
and wars of slaughter and plunge it back
into the commercial barbarism of former
centuries. 1t should be the first grand
mission of the democratic party to bring
their plottings to naught. They are "the
common enemy" against whom enlighten-
ed men everywhere should combine.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17


The New York Journal asks whether or
not the legal profession has degenerated.
The basis of this question was a state
ment of Judge Edward Patterson of the
New York supreme court, made in an ad-
dress at a meeting of the Law Club, that
"the legal profession has degenerated into
a mere trade"
If the profession is now only a trade,
it is easy to account for the admission
of Bryan Gilbert to the bar by the su-
preme court of Kansas. Mr.. Gilbert is
reported to be only years of age.
He is the son of J. G. w. Gilbert of Atch-
ison, Kan. According to published ac-
counts, Chief Justice Doster gave the boy
a very thorough examination, asking him
many intricate legal questions. The ex-
animation was satisfactory in every re-
spect, the questions being answered cor
rectly and promptly. A certificate was is
sued to the boy by ex-United States Sena-
tor Martin, who is now clerk of the Kan
sas supreme court.
A boy of years of age a practicing
lawyer! 1t doesn't seem reasonable. Boy
them being pretty old boys, but 7-year-
old boy lawyers are not common. There
can hardly be more than one of the kind,
that one being in Kansas
If this boy knows as much law as it is
said he does, 1t is clear that lawyers are
not degenerating, whatever may be said
of the legal profession. If he has mas
tered Blackstone, Kent and Greenleaf at
Z, he ought to be able 10 tell how a petit
jury is going to decide a case by the time
he is q. 1t may be, however, that like
most other prOdigies, he will be so lack
ing In common sense when he reaches
manhood that he will be useful only as
curiosity Sull, he may survive and grow
SO great mentally as to be able to lift his
profession from a trade to the high place
it once occupied.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17
Force Bill For Hawaii.
From the Philadelphia Record Dem

AS the 5000 Americans who are paramount
in Hawaii can just about hold down the
5000 natives, the first demand on con-
gress for the new state would be a force
bill. A well regulated militia being out
of the question, it would be the business
of the federal government to furnish an
army and a navy to keep the sovereign
voters loyal-especially upon election
DAYS
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17

Kansas maintains her reputation as
being the freak state of the union. The
town of Mankato, in Kansas, has just
adopted an ordinance prohibiting the sing
ing or whistling of a so-called popular"
song on the streets of the town between
the hours of in the morning and 10 at
night upon pain of fine and imprison-
nent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17

1t transpires that James A. Garfield,
whose standing as a republican is be-
You'd question, was opposed TO the annex
alton Of new territory by The United
States. in a speech delivered in the
House OF Representatives on April G, 1876.
Mr.. Garfield said, among other things: Il
cannot more strongly stale my view of
that subject than by saying that if The
Island Of Cuba were offered to us with
the consent Of all Of the powers of the
world. and $780, 900 in gold were offered
as bonus for acceptance, I would un-
hesitatingly vote 10 decline the offer. O.
Should I'VE extend our possessions into the
tropical belt (1awaii is in the tropical
belO we should weaken the power Of our
people and government" The republicans
will have to fall back upon the statement
that Garfield is dead. and say that his
judgment was so faulty that twenty years
Or so ago he concluded that the pension
list had reached the high-woter mark.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17

Senator Pettlgrew's proposition that the
United States so to work and kill all Of
the seals is probably in the nature of
bluff. England and Canada would quickly
protest against anything of the sort. and
if this country were TO give it out TO be its
policy to eXterminate the herd if some sat
isfactory agreement could not be reached
quickly the probabilities are that John
Bull and the Canuck would be much more
reasonable and agreeable in their PROPOSE
tons. Meantime there are lots of people
in all sections Of the country who are be-
ginning to ask themselves the question.
what good are the seals to the United
States, anyhow" We are perpetually in
trouble about them, without any apparent
advantage accruing to the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17

They saw Dumley's wife rules him
with a rod of iron"
"Oh no; that's an exaggeration. WHY.
she can make him jump by merely crook
ing her little finger at him. Household
Words.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17

Chicago from time TO time presents to
notice something out of the ordinary, and
asks New York to match 1t if she can.
Chicago now invites attention to the pre-
mier horse thief Of the age, a person who
has stolen 100000 worth Of horses and
carriages, and with some pride challenges
the metropolis of the east to equal the
record if Il can.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17

The populist national committee, which
is to meet in St Louis in January to fix
the date for the national convention 10
be held some time in April, could probably
pitch upon no more fitting and Suggestive
time than the first day of that month for
the meeting.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17
CURRENT COMMENT.
Administration VIII Take Notice.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer Rep).

The low price of cotton is a misfortune
to the whole country. 1t loses much of
the chance to establish the country's finan-
cial independence and it promotes the
plans of foreign capitalists.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17

For the last day or two the senator's
have been in frame Of mind bordering
on frenzy, because OF a report that
Speaker Reed intends to adopt a plan to
prevent the Senate from increasing appro-
pration bills. The House committee on
appropriations frames the appropriation
bills. but the Senate has a way of greatly
increasing the total Of these bills by put
ting into them appropriations for pet
schemes of their own, In that way many
millions of dollars are taken out of the
treasury for purposes which do not have
the full approval OF the House, but to
which the House has to consent to pre-
vent the appropriation bills from being de-
featcd. Speaker Reed wants to keep down
the appropriations this year on account of
the treasury deficiency, and besides he
doesn't approve Of the Senate's practice
Of increasing the Appropriation bills. 1t
would be interesting 10 watch fight be
tween him and the senators. He would
have the sympathy Of the public.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17

1t is claimed that The barges have very
nearly run the scoonsrs out of the coast
wise coal trade and it is feared that the
coastwise lumber trade will also be cap
tured by them before a great while. And
now the barges are apparently reaching
out for new lines of business to conquer
1t is announced that with the beginning
of the new year they will enter into COM
petition with the railways and steamboats,
which have been carrying grain TO the
Gulf ports. A line Of large steel barges
will be put on the river between st. Louis
and New Orleans. They will carry wheat
and corn for cents per bushel, with
equally cheap rates for such return mer-
chandise as they may be able to obtain
The barge fleet will probably add consid-
erably to the commerce of New Orleans.
but it may puzzle and annoy the railroads
and the river steam craft.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-19
ElCnTO-Flve YEARS AGO TODAY.

Eighty-five years ago today war was
J formally declared against Great Britain.
One of the most instructive lessons which
can be drawn from that event is the won
derful progress made by the young re-
public since 1892 in naval architecture
and ocean warfare and the causes which
| produced these results. In his very i'm
| partial work, "The Naval War of 1922
Theodore Roosevelt says: SIN 1882 the
British stood first in nautical powers,
separated by very narrow interval from
the French while the Americans made a
bad third. In 1889 the British still stood
first, while the Americans had made a
great stride forward, coming close on
their heels, and the French had fallen far
behind into the third place. Ia 1912, the
relative positions of the British and
French were unchanged, but the Amer
leans had taken another decided step in
advance and stood nearly as far ahead of
the British as the latter were ahead of the
French" That this is not an empty boast
is proven by facts. Every school boy
has studied and glories in the victorious
combats between the "Constitutlon and
the Guerrero" "the Wasp and the Frolic,"
"the United States and the Macedonian"
"the Constitution and the Java" "the
Peacock and the Epervior," "the Wasp
and the Reindeer" "the Wasp and the
Avon" and score of other equally
creditable naval engagements, while the
brilliant victories of Perry, McDonough
and Yoe on Lakes Erie, Champlain and
Ontario, simply aunihilated the English
finely manned and equipped fleets on the
lakes. When it is added that 1900 Brit
ieh merchantmen and rs or more men
of war were either captured or destroyed
in less than three years, which vastly
exceeded the losses of the United States, it
may well be claimed that the United States
tore the laurels of victory from England's
brow on her favorite element, and that we
created the means to do so in less than
80 years, by duties discriminating IN
favor of American shipping.
In this connection, it may also be men
toned, that Senator Elkins' chipping BILL
if it becomes law, will bring about a similar
result in commercial naval matters and
in the growth of the shipping and will
create immediate building up and an in
crease of the merchant marine of this
country.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-19
Ready to Walk.

Once, when the Pensacola was coming up
to San Francisco from the south seas,
somewhere off Honolulu she met gale
that almost laid her down Carpenter Nc
Gloin a privileged character who invari-
ably became seasick in heavy weather,
promptly went to bed. Finally it was re-
ported to the captain that something was
wrong with the fore topmast. The captain
sent for McGloin, and the carpenter stag
gered on deck. Get up there, s" command
ed the captain, ''and see what's the matter
at the foretop.' Cup that mast?" gasped
McGloin. The proposition SO dazed him
that he lost his breath. Cup that mast, -
reiterated the captain, land find out what's
the matter at the foretop.' Captain, ="
said McGloin in a last despairing protest,
edo you really mean that you want me to
go up that mast in this storm, with this
ship going this way, and see what wrong
with that foretop9" ''You heard what
said," exclaimed the captain, losing pa
thence at last. Now get up that mast
and be quick about it too' Captain, 4"
said McGloin solemnly, 'if there was a
four inch plank from here to Brooklyn, I'd
walk home. "-Argonaut.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-19
A NOVEL SITUATION.

William Jennings Bryan, also known to
captured the Transmississippi congress
at Salt Lake on Saturday. That is what
he went to Salt Lake for. On that day he
put his little meeting on record for free
silver, and then requested the president,
who is goldite, and who offered to resign
as chairman of the congress after the sill
yer declaration, to keep cool and continue
to hold down the chair.
Bryan's opening speech before the
congress in measure indicated the course
that he intended to pursue in the matter
of getting through silver resolution.
There WAS not word of silver in this
address. It was entirely pointless, abound
ing in the stereotyped platitudes of the
professional after dinner speaker. 1t was
devoid of politics and fairly bristled with
harmless little sayings about the great
and boundless west and the room that its
valleys contained for future population.
A good many people remarked upon the
popularity OF this address at the time it
was delivered. But Bryan knew his BUSH
ness. He had no idea of alarming mem
bers of the congress who hold views on
the financial question opposed to his
own, which course would have put them
on their guard and proved fatal to the
little scheme which he was even then
preparing to spring. At the proper time
he put the congress on record for free
silver in resolution demanding" the
immediate restoration of the white metal
at a ratio of 16 to l..
Then the Republican goldbug presi-
dent wanted to resign, saying that he
could no longer serve the meeting con-
sistently in the capacity of presiding
officer. Again the "Boy Orator" came to
the rescue, and the music of his voice
stiled the elements that ragged in fury
about him. 'Stay where You are" said
he to President Craig, or words to that
effect, and the president stayed. Here is
consistency for You.
Republican leader, the bitter and |
opponent of free silver,
presiding over congress or convention
bossed by Bryan in the interest of the
white metal. Ten to one they are asking
in San Francisco If Bryan has hypnotized
President Craig.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-19

There are times when the
variation of pulse beat
tells the practiced physician
whether the scale will 20
down and mean death or up
and mean life. But suppose
the medicine he prescribes is
not the medicine which your
child is taking, but some
thing the druggist thought
would do just as well Who
is going to regulate the bal
ance then ? A druggist who
will offer you something else
when you ask for SCOTS
Emulsion will do the same
thing with his prescriptions.
Get what you ask for!
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-19

gown of blue linen with white pique
trimming appearing at the foot of the
skirt and a shawl-shaped collar on the
jacket. Scrools of black braid relieve the
expanse of white.
The skirt is cut with a circular front,
which is somewhat scant, almost on the
lines of the old bell skirt. In the back are
two flaring cores.
A waist of white dimity is worn with a
stock and belt of canary colored silk. The
short jacket is happy combination of
the Elton and Empire styles, the back be-
ing seamless and fitting rather snugly.
The front likewise, lie seamless, but hangs
loose below the bust. A scroll of the
black braid heads ruffle of white lace set
around the bottom.
The sleeves are the "leg % mutton"
shape finished at the wrist with cuff that
opens in the front and extends over the
hand. Braiding covers the cuff and the
lower end of the sleeve.
A hat of Leghorn is trimmed with a
wreath of yellow roses and foliage and
white lace to form an aigrette. A scarf
of chiffon to match the roses is draped
about the brim with long ends at the back
that tie under the chin at the right. SUI
shade of blue linen with rutfis of white
lace.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-19

ALASKA, which was at one time believed
to be almost entirely worthless, is turning
ont TO be a great country. When the
United States government purchased it
for $7,000,000, the trade was generally
looked upon as bad one. Recent events
and broader knowledge have, however,
convinced the world that Alaska is store
house of the precious metals, of enor-
nous value. The presence of gold there
in paying quantities has been for some
time an admitted fact-and good many
fortunes have been taken from it's bleak
hills and mountains. The return TO civil.
lization of something less than 100 min
ers who spent last winter on the Yukon,
and who brought back fortunes variously
estimated from $1,000 to $15O,0OO, seems
to have set the northwest on fire, and a
mighty exodus is now underway to the
new land of promise. In the crowd that
has Just returned to Seattle it seems that
the most successful belonged to the ten
derfoot class, while many of the exper-
fenced miners have come home with only
a few Thousand. The future of Alaska is
assured.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-19
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Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-19
THE WRONG GIRL.
She Resented His Insisting Upon Going
Oat Between tho Acts.

one RESENTED HIS insisting Upon Going
| Oat Between tho Acts.
1t did not take place in the city of Wash
ington, because no man In Washington
leaves lady alone while he goes out be-
tween the acts at a theater unless it be his
wife, and, of course, that doesn count.
But it did occur, and the man in the
case was perhaps 80, the girl 20. and the
theater was one in which the melodrama
has it's home. The girl was pretty, and
there was that kind of a jaw hedging the
lower part Of her rosy cheeks that ought to
have been hint to the young man. The
young man was very fair sample of the
average chap who makes 81, 200 to 81, 800
year.
Between them and the aisle sat big
man of so with his wife and two daugh-
tiers, and the big man had voice bigger
than he was. When the curtain went down
OH the first act, there was slight scrap
between the couple, which ended in the
young man not going out between the first
and second acts because the wait was
short and he hadn't time to argue The
girls cheeks were redder than before when
the curtain went up, and the set of her
jaw was flrmer.
At the next fall of the curtain there was
a slight scrap again, which ended this
time in the young man dragging himself
over four people and leaving the girl to cit
alone until he was ready to come back to
her.
Two minutes later the girl dragged her.
self after him, over the same four people.
But she stopped in the aisle long enough
to say something to the big man with the
two daughters. Then she disappeared
1t was Il long wait, and just as the cur
tain started up the young man hurried
down the aisle, and was about to drag
himself over four people when the big man
called his attention to the vacancy which
had occurred during his absence.
The young mans jaw dropped, and he
actually grew red in the face.
The big man handed him ring with
bright little diamond glistening in it.
''She gave me that and told me to give it
to you," he said, with menace in his tone
as he looked over at his own girls, land
she said if you ever came to her house again
or spoke to her her father would thrash you
as you deserved"
The young man was paralyzed.
"And l want to say" added the big
party, 'that If the old man amt able to
do it, he can call on me-
Then he let the young man go, and the
way he went was caution to flying ma
chine. Washington Star