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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
The Cheek Trouble.

These little one-horse governments, like
that of Siam, will understand after awhile
that the governments with big steel bat
tie ships and cruisers are not going to
stand any nonsense from them. They re-
spect each others guns, and are not
hasty in making peremptory demands
upon each other for reparation for real or
fancied injuries
This country has a little speck of trou-
BILE with the government of Siam, and
that government has been given to I'M
derstand she must arbitrate the matter
at issue at once or take the consequences.
The gunboat Machias has gone to Bang
kok to enforce this understanding.
1t seems that Vice Consul Kellett had
gone TO the interior to see about some
goods belonging to a man named Cheek
DIR. Cheek-which had been seized by
the government of Siam on the plea that
a contract which Cheek had with the
government had not been complied with
by him. Consul Kellett was assaulted and
quite badly hurt by some roughs and
soldiers. He complained of course, of the
treatment to which he had been subjected,
and the state department., after having
become satisfied that the complaint was
well-founded, determined to teach the
government of Siam a lesson.
1t is probable that Dr. Cheek will get
his property and that Consul Kellett will
be compensated in some manner for the
physical and mental pain he has suffered.
1t is all right to compel these little gov
ernments to understand that they cannot
with impunity heap indignities upon the
heads of American citizens who happen
TO be within their borders. If they do
not know how to deal with strangers
within their gates the presence of a gun
boat or a cruiser will assist in teaching
them. Still. it does seem a little queer
that it is only the weak, little nations
that are kicked and cuffed when they
don't behave themselves. The powerful
nations, when they inflict injuries, are
approached as if they had ravors to con-
fer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
index TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meeting-Germania Club.
Special GJotices-Electric Supply and
Construction Company; Dissolution No
tice, Rodgers. Handley & Co; Sealed Pro-
posals. Harry Willink. Commissioner;
Political Communications; Wolf & Co.,
Florists.
Divorce Your Old suit-B. H. Levy &
BRO.
Auction sales-Nice House and Lot, by
]. d. LaRoche.
Steamship chedules-American Line:
Red Star Line: Ocean Steamship Line;
Baltimore Steamship Line.
Soups-Huckins Soups.
Suits for Children-Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Medcal-Wine of Cardui; Hoods Sarsa-
parilla; Carlsbad sprudal Salt; Cuticura
Remedies; s. S. S.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

Certain senators are alleged to be work
ing to have the debate upon the pending
treaty with Great Britain held in open
session. The movement will probably
amount to nothing The Senate is too
jealous of the air Of mystery which the
secret session gives its proceedings to
think for a moment of abollshing that
custom. The secret session is a good
thing, when international questions, or
other questions Of government policy, are
under consideration. and should be per-
petuated. But there is no reason why
the Senate should go into secret session
TO discuss the confirmation of postmas-
ters or similar matters
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
A Hospital story.

Perhaps because the guest of the even
ing was a Scotchman, or possibly because
one man in the party had a Scotch story
to tell, the conversation was brought
around to a discussion of the Scotch race,
says the New York Sun. 1T was while
was attached to London hospital" said
physician, that / witnessed a marvel
lous cure of a Scotchman. We will call
him Sandy, though that is not his name.
One Of his legs had been so badly mangled
in an accident that we decided to ampu-
tate it. The shock was a severe one to
Sandy, and when ne regained conscious
ness after the operation it was evident
that he had not vitality enough left to re-
cover. Mon, aim L going to dee? he ask
ed. We hope for the best, Sandy 1 said,
but your condition Is critical. Is there
any Scotch dish that you would hke?'
Sandy said that he didn't want anything
to eat, but If he could hear the bagpipes
Just once more he could die happy. We
didn't have piper on our staff, but one
OF the nurses found one in chop house
not far away. When the piper arrived,
Sandy was 80 weak that he could not
speak. He looked grateful. Although it
was not in accordance with our hospital
rules, we hadn't the heart to refuse San
dy's dying request. ] gave the signal and
the piper began to play. Sandy smiled
peacefully, and at the end of the second
tune lie udu gone asleep Ills Jempera-
ture and pulse showed a remarkable i'm
proVement, and because Sandy was a good
fellow and we thought he might call for
the pipes again before he breathed his last
we kept the piper. Two hours later Sandy
awoke, and the first thing that he asked
for was the pipes. Again that weird noise
filled the hospital, and once more Sandy
went to sleep. stronger and better than
we had expected him to be. A third time
he awoke, and again the piper played.
When Sandy once again fell asleep, to our
amazement, the crisis had passed, and he
was on the road to recovery. He is now
alive and we'll"
THE Scotch are a wonderful race" COM
mented Roy V. Somerville. Now my
grandmother was
But l haven't told you the sad sequel"
interrupted the physician. we had been
so much interested in Sandy during the
night that we had neglected our other pa
tents. Sandy did recover, as I have said,
but when we made the rounds in the
morning we found all the English patients
stiff in bed. They were all dead"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
CIeveIand's Breach of Etiquette.

In the last congress. says the Washing
ton correspondence of the Philadelphia
Press, there was an old fellow from Vir-
ginia who represented one of the back
districts and who brought with him the
old-fashioned ideas of hospitality that still
obtain in certain parts of the south. The
colony of southern members that still
congregate at the Metropolitan hotel and
discuss public issues and public men
around an open CRATE fire in the parlor
after dinner, relates many amusing stories
about this old gentleman.
one day, in walking down from the cap
itol with one of his Virginia colleagues,
the old gentleman began abusing Presi-
dent Cleveland, applying to him all sorts
of opporbrious names.
His colleague was astonished and re-
monstrated by saying that such an out
break was unseemly, inasmuch as Mr.
Cleveland was not only the leading demo-
crat of the country, but was President of
the United States. More respect should
be shown the Office.
Il have great respect for the Office
sah," said the Virginian. 81 hope 1 have
propah reverence. sab, fob the high Office
to which ouah state has contributed so
many distinguished gentlemen, sab, but
1 say right now. sab, that Cleveland is
no gentleman" "
why, what is the matter?" inquired
his friend.
well, l will tell you sab. Last evenin'
I went to the white house to see about
the appointment of a postmastah in my
district. Mr.. Thurber took my cahd to
the President and what do you think was
the anseh, sab? He sent word to me, sab,
that he was goin to dinnah and could
not see me.
Think of it, sab! Coin to dinnah just
as l called and nevah invited me to dine
with him, sab! What gentleman in Vir-
ginia would refuse his hospitality to an
other gentleman, sab, who had called
around as he was goin to dinnah, sab?
l say that Mr.. Cleveland is not a gen.
tleman, nor does he know how to treat a
gentleman, sah"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
varying the Monotony of Travel.

'Ah-kit-choo! Kit-choo!'
AS the woman in the North Side street
car gave utterance to the foregoing re-
mark in loud and hurried accents the car
suddenly turned corner, and a man who
was standing near her saved himself with
difficulty from falling backward, says the
Chicago Tribune.
A few moments later she repeated the
observation, even more loudly and spas
medically than before:
"Ah-kit-choo! Kit-choow
simultaneously the car turned a corner
again, and again the man lurched back
ward.
Case Of grip. probably commented
one of the passengers.
Yes. Too tight on the cable" assented
the passenger sitting next to him.
Another minute or two passed.
'Kit-choo! Kit-choo! Kit-choov'
1t was the woman.
At the precise moment when she sneezed
for the third time the car turned sharply
again. and the man who was standing up
lost his balance entirely and fell to the
floor
Madame" he said In an injured tone
picking himself up and moving further
away from her. you ought to take some
thing for thatr'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
Free school Books.
From the Florida Citizen (Dem).

The practice of furnishing free text
books in public schools is increasing Ten
of the states now make the furnishing
OF free books compulsory upon the school
authorities, and nine others have passed
laws permitting them to be furnished by
the authorities. The adoption Of a series
of textbooks to be used uniformly by all
counties appears TO be a preliminary step
to the inauguration of the free-book plan.
The fact Is well known that books can
be purchased by state for all of its
schools at a much smaller cost than they
can be procured at retail by parents.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21


We have received from Charleston, S.
c.. a lengthy letter signed Fam. Phiz,
which may stand for Family Physician"
in which the writer protests against the
building in Charleston of a new city hail
while there is so great a need of an inn
proved water works system. According
to Fam. Phiz.," the water in Charleston
residences "only reaches the lower spick-
cts (spigots) except when there are pa
rades. alarms of fire. or gala week gath
erings. At most other times water has to
be carried from the first floor spicket to
the higher points in the house" In the
light of this testimony it would seem
that those Charleston bath tubs, full
length and stationary which the News
and Courier was telling us about some
time ago. were on the parlor floors. For.
obviously, it would be foolish to put a
full length bath tub on floor whose
"spickets' gave down no water. How
ever. Fam. Phiz." gives information
which throws a shadow OF doubt upon the
presence Of bath tubs even on Charleston
parlor floors. He says: I'VE have people
here who never saw bath tub or an
electric car They wash, but do II In the
rivers, or basins, tubs, etc" In so far as
the Charleston water works system Is
concerned, we are not well informed. We
do not know how many "spickets" high
the water commonly reaches. But we are
pleased to put It on record that. notwith-
standing there are people in Charleston
fsyvho never saw a bath tub or an electric
car" they wash themselves. even II they
have to do it In one OF the rivers or in
hand basin.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

The Montana legislature has killed a bill
proposing a pension of 81 a week to every
person in the state who is Go years old or
who shall hereafter attain to the age of
&C. Presumably the bill was not broad
enough. Had the gentleman who intro
duced it fixed the age limit at 81 years.
and the amount to be paid at 81 a day, the
bill might have stood better chance of
passing.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

A bill introduced into the New York leg.
islature a few days ago has as its purpose
the authorizing of a canal navigation and
transportation company the operations of
which may materially affect the grain trade
of the southern ports. The members of
the company are grain dealers. elevator
owners and terminal property owners in
Duluth, Chicago Buffalo and elsewhere.
The plan is to form a strong combination
for the transportation OF western wheat
and corn from the lake cities by canal to
New York for expectation from that point
This water route would come into compe-
tition with the rail routes which are bring
ing grain freights to the southern ports.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
The senate and the Treaty.
From the Baltimore Herald Oem.).

The United States Senate may not rat
ify the arbitration treaty negotiated be-
tween the United States and Great Bril-
tain, because Of hostility to the adminis-
tration, but the sober judgment of the
civilized world, however. says it should
be ratified. The senators sometimes,
however, imagine they rule the United
States. because they can prevent the con-
flrmation of the appointments to a few
offices.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

-Baroness-"Clara, bring me those dozen
pocket handkerchiefs on which l told you
TO mark my monogram" Lady's Maid
Here they are my lady" Baroness
but how Is this2 You haven't marked
all Of them with my monogram" Ladys
Maid-"lndeed have. my lady. I marked
one with your monogram. and ! have
marked all the others with the word
Ditto "-Tit-Bits.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

While there is believed to be no dan
Ger of the entrance of the bubonlc plague
into this country, the marine hospital SER
vice has done well to take precautionary
measures. The regulations adopted in
1894, when there was cholera in Europe.
have been revived. and strict watch
will be kept upon foreign ports.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
The south Carolina Dispensary.
From the Philadelphia Record Dem.)

The supreme court of the United States
yesterday decided that those provisions
OF the South Carolina dispensary law
which forbid the citizens of that state
from importing liquors into the Palmetto
state for their own use are In contraven-
ton of the Interstate commerce clause OF
the constitution, and are, therefore, VOID.
Justice Brown dssented from this view;
but the effect OF the decision. ueverthe-
less. Is to punch one more big hole in the
dispensary system, which has been so
tossed about between legal tribunals as 20
have lost all semblance of its original
character. so that as IL stands It amounts
TO nothing more than demonstration
that a sovereign state cannot set up a
liquor trust of its own with any gain 10
its morals or profit to its treasury Till
mans dispensary must follow its author
into oblivion. and be repaced at last by
rational license system.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

A counterfeit of the $40 silver certificate
is advertised. The treasury officials say
that Manning's nose in the picture on the
spurious bill is sharp and pointed, while
on the genuine bill 1t is round and broad.
1t is in order, therefore, for people to be
guided by Mannings nose in the accept
ance of $50 silver certificates.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

Notwithstanding the administration at
Washington has been accused of PARTIAL
~ towards Spain, because 1t has insisted
that this country shall observe its obn-
cations TO a friendly power, it becomes
more and more plain that the adminstra-
ton is dealing with Spain with firm
hand. Three times within as many months
the government at Washington has made
demands upon Spain and received the con-
cessions demanded Julio Sanguiy was
convicted before a Spanish military trl-
bunal. The United States demanded that
as an American citizen. he be given a civil
trial; and it was accorded. A similar de-
mand was made in the case Of the crew
OF the Competitor, and a retrial was
granted. And now a concession to Amer
ican ships trading at Cuban ports has been
demanded and granted. The customs Of
ficials at Havana have been collecting un-
just and discriminating dues from Amer
lean vessels. Secretary olney correspond
ed with the Madrid government with re-
gard 10 the matter. with the outcome that
the collection OF such dues will be stopped.
and captains who have paid them under
protest VIII have the oyercharges refund
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

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and on good material. from the compete
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manufacturing department OF the Morn
ing News.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
A New Feminist Lender

If we are to believe what the represent
atlves of new journalism in Atlanta
say. Senator Yancy Carter is to displace
Mr.. Tom Watson as the leader of the pop
ulist party of Georgia. What has Senator
Carter done or what remarkable qualities
of leadership has he displayed that it
should be announced that he is the COM
ing leader of the popuist party of this
state? Until the recent session Of the leg
islature he was unheard OF. except in his
own immediate neighborhood. He is a
senator in the general assembly, and at
the last session of that body he made
charges against some of the superior court
judges. There were reports concerning
these judges which perhaps justified Sen
ator Carter's action. A committee was
appointed to investigate the charges.
which. after the evidence had been heard,
were not sustained II may be that Sena-
tor Carter rendered the state a real SER
vice. That is a matter however, about
which there is certain to be a difference
of opinion. But admitting that what he
did will have beneficial effect what is
there in what he said or did from the be-
ginning to the end of the scandal cases
that indicates that he possesses the quail
ties of leadership?
MIR. Tom Watson has shown that he is
not only man of ability, but has some
excuse for aspiring to the position of
leader. He has won his way to the front
by displaying qualities which command
respect and attention. What particular
ability has Senator Carter shown?
We do not desire to detract in the least
from any merit Senator Carter may pos
sess. He may be an ADLER man than Mr..
Tom Watson, and he may have all the
qualities required in a successful political
leader. What we say is that as yet he has
not shown such qualities; nor has he said
or done anything that denotes the possess
sion OF conspicuous ability. 1t seems to
US, therefore, that the effort to push him
to the front is nothing more than a mani
festatlon of a desire on the part of the
newspapers to say or do something that
will attract attention to themselves.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
CURRENT COMMENT.
righteous Verdict.

From the Columbia Is. CO State Dem).
The Georgia investigating committee
has decided that judge who uses
''big, big d" when a clumsy waiter spills
hot soup down his back is not guilty. A
righteous verdict.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

Note-*Central Time.
eastern Time.
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For detailed information, reservations
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

Congressman Billy" Mason, who is to
be the new senator from Illinois. has a
reputation as a story-teller He is a reg
ular little Joker" and spins yarns like
a drummer whenever he can get an audi
ence. He is the man. by the way. who
started out from Chicago in October to
chase Mr.. Bryan around his northwestern
circuit and refute all of his arguments
while they were stin fresh in the minds
Of the people But he did not do much
chasing. Before Mason had more than
got out of sight of the smoke % Chicago
he reached the conclusion that he was
on the wrong trail. and quit. Almost
riot was precipitated at his first meet
ing
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

1t is announced in Canton, o., dispatch
that President-elect Mckinley is looking
out for brains in the formation OF his cab
met The announcement will carry dis
codrasement to many a republican heart
that beats warm FOR its country
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

A meeting Of commissioners of Alabama
was held at Birmingham the other day and
It was decided that Alabama should be rep.
resented in the Tennessee exposition. II
is proposed to make the exhibit particular.
~ full in the line of minerals. and manu-.
features OF iron, steel and other metals.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

The New York Evening Post says one
of the most striking developments in the
been the dropping of the calamity cry"
and the raising OF joyful chorus" Be
fore the election" continues the Evening
Post, 1.-THE advocates Of free coinage felt
constrained TO declare that everything was
going TO ruin, and that prosperity could
not be hoped for unless the monetary
standard should be changed" Now these
same people are talking Of better times.
They are claiming that conditions in the
south are very promising; and what Is
more, according to the Evening Post,
they are proving their claims"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21

A Baltimore man who Is suing for a.
vorce has fled as part OF
the records OF his case some
Of his wife's bills, which contain these
among other items: "Hat, $500; notions.
SO; chewing gum and tobacco, S2i; brushes
and paints, $40; cologne. S975; ice cream.
$40; oysters $40; cigarettes. a.75" These
bills were contracted in a fraction Of
week. The showing Is enough 10 create
strong eymnnfhy Tor the husband