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The morning news., 1897-03-29
BRIGHT BITS.

Does your husband sympathize with
the Greeks?''
"He does, indeed. he has named two of
cago Record.
"A Man of Mark.-"There goes a man
who is one in a thousand"
~What gives him such Distinction"
HE is clerk in a department store."-
Chicago Record.
-He-Miss Bellacour claims to belong to
very old family.
she-well, she's JUSTIFIED. There are
six of those girls, and the youngest of
them must be at least 35."-Cleveland
Leader
-Poor.-"But we cannot live on papa"
protested the savage's bride to be. HE is
dreadfully poor"
I'VE can wait until he is fatter?' ex-
claimed the youth, "for love is braver'-
Detroit Journal
Away Down.-"Do you believe his in
terest in the state is as deep as he pretends
it to be?"
1T is several thousand feet deep, at any
rate. He has a lot of gas and oil wells"
indianapolis Journal.
-Following.-"And did the groom kiss
the bride?"
"Oh, yes.'
Before everybody
mo, after everybody except the sexton
and the organist. Detroit Journal.
An American Answer.-The Good Boy
Let's see. Joshua was not an American,
was he?
Rhe Bad Boy-No; if he had been, he
would have told the sun to get a move
on itself.-Cincinnau Commercial Trib-
une.
AN Indicaton-"Has your son taken
up the higher mathematics?" inquired the
friend.
Il don't know for sure" replied the
father, who was looking over a number
of hills; anyhow, he's getting great
deal more familiar with figures than he
used to be. washington Star.
The morning news., 1897-03-29
Strange Things at Sea.

A remarkable story about the Ameri-
can ship Iroquois picking live frog on a
cloud in mid-ocean excited a murmur of
comment along the water front yester-
day, says the Morning Oregonian, and
had the story come to port with almost
any other man but Capt. Taylor it might
have been doubted Taylors reputation
for veracity is well established in Port
land so the strange story was taken
without a grain of salt, and with only a
few drinks Of whisky. An unusual tale
of the sea always brings to mind another,
and the frog story of the Iroquois was no
exception.
There's strange things happen on
board ship, sometimes" said AL Belts,
the well-known river pilot. "and scraping
frogs off the clouds with a topmast is not
the strangest. / remember an occurrence
on board the old clipper Plumduff which
was so remarkable that 1 am frequently
accused of handling the truth in a care
less manner when 1 relate it, The Plum
duff was en- route from Calcutta for the
Columbia, in. ballast, and l was first mate
under Capt. TimbertoeS. Among other
live stock aboard was a Maltese cat. The
cat behaved very we'll for the first week
or two but when we got over on the
equator she made the night hideous with
her incessant yowling. Old Timbertoes
had the gout, and did not sleep well any
way, and this inhiction nearly made him
crazy so one night he came out, and find
ing the cat in a good, convenient position,
kicked her over into the sounding sea.
"The only witness to the deed was a las
car sailor at the wheel, and, when he told
the rest of the crew, we almost had a
mutiny on our hands, as they prophesied
all sorts of bad luck would happen to the
ship Nothing came Of it, however, and as
in, hal la ct triD
ing along in rafting shape, and about
ninety days after leaving the Ganges our
mudhook went down in Astoria harbor. In
due season the custom house boat came
out and when the officers clambered
aboard Denny Curran, the boatman, slack
ed away on his lanyard and his boat
dropped around under the stern. A mo-
ment later we heard yell, and Denny
was coming up the ladder hand over hand
as though the devil was after him, and in
his boat, making a united chorus of
'meows,' was our old Maltese cat and five
| half-grown kittens"
when Denny recovered his breath he
stated that, as his boat swung around un-
der the stern, the animals Immediately
| sprang off the top of the rudder, and the
unusual sight nearly frightened him 10
| death. We then went back and made an
examination of the rudder, and found that
with her claws the abandoned cat had
| scratched a cavity out of the top of the
| rudder, and, while the lascar sailors had
been mourning her death, she was engag-
ed in rearing a family. The rudder being
| high out of the water, of course prevented
her getting wet very often, and a number
| of fish bones still reposing in the cavity
| indicated the diet which had kept her alive.
| She was taken ashore, and l think Scott
| Johnson, the Astoria steVedore, has some
| of her descendants yet and to this day
| they will eat nothing but sea fish,
The morning news., 1897-03-29
Led Them q Chase.

When Cyrus w. Field was dying at his
home in Gramercy park all of the news
papers had reporters stationed at the
house, says the New York Mail and Elk
press. The young man who had been
ION watch failed to report for duty one
morning and 1 was assigned to his task.
When 1 reached the Field home 1 found
ten or twelve newspaper men on the op-
poste side of the street.
The boys We're dancing about in an ef-
fort to keep the blood in circulation, for
the weather was keen. | joined the
group. No bulletin had been given out by
the doctors in attendance, but so many
people had hurried into the house that 1t
seemed certain that a crisis had been
reached. The reporters were on the alert.
had been in the group only few min
utes when the front door of the house
opened and the late DIR. Matthew Field
came out.
you know DIR. Field?" queried one of
the reporters.
YES"
"Wen, suppose you try and find out the
situa ton of affairs%'
l crossed the street and spoke to the
doctor just as he was entering the cab.
Jump in" he said, "and 1 will talk to
you. / am in a great hurry this morn
ing"
took seat beside the doctor. the
| driver cracked his whip, the cab wheeled
into the avenue and away we went up
town.
Above the rattle of wheels could hear
a peculiar pattering sound. Glancing
through the window in the back of the
cab, l say the whole crowd of reporters
in full flight after US.
A lean chap from an afternoon paper
had the middle of the road and the way
he was eating up distance was caution.
At his heels struggled the others. Two
fat fellows brought up the rear.
l called the doctors attention to the
chase Between his chuckles he encour-
aged the driver TO get a little more speed
out of his horse. At Twenty-second street
the sprinter of the pursuing party was
the only one left. The others had neld
up lamp-posts or had taken seats on the
curb. The sprinter was game He held
out for several blocks more and then tot
tered to the sidewalk.
DR.. Field had very little to say about
the condition of his distinguished rela-
tive. There had been no pronounced
change. In fact. the news was scarcely
worth telephoning. At Thirty-fourth
street 1 left the cab and went down TO
Gramercy park in a horse car.
on hearing my report they were the
most disgusted lot of reporters imagina-
BILE. The sprinter had wrenched his an
kle and one of the fat men had upset his
stomach. But in their stories that after
noon every one of them claimed to nave
ridden uptown with DR.. Field There were
portents of the new journalism even in
those days.
The morning news., 1897-03-29
The Telegraph Too slow.

There are rumors in the larger cities of
great advances pending in the field of ap-,
piled electricity, especially as regards
transportation and the transmission of
messages. The president of a New Eng
land railroad was quoted in a newspaper
letter few days ago as saying it would
not surprise him at all if within five years
time every steam locomotive owned by
his company we're sent to the scrap heap,
TO make way for electric moters.
One particular rumor current in New
York, has to do with preparations for the
fight between the great telegraph and tel
ephone companies which some persons
have regarded as Inevitable, and which
has been a subject of discussion for some
time. 1t is to the effect that the greatest
of the telegraph companies has made ar
rangements TO meet and more than match
the telephone Since the advent of the
long distance telephone, it has come about
that the telegraph is too slow for the
transaction Of many Of the great deals
which are from time to time made in the
railroad, manufacturing and commercial
worlds. Only a short while ago a railroad
magnate in Chicago and another in New
York sat in their respective Offices, with
long distance phones to their ears. From
time to time they would say a word or
two into the transmitter, and then a SEN
tence or two to stenographer. At the
end of few minutes-within about the
time it would have taken to send and de-
liver a single telegraphic message-they
had concluded their deal, and a railroad
had changed ownership. AS an example
of rapid and reliable communication, the
incident demonstrated the superiority of
the telephone over the old Morse system
of telegraphy.
The telegraph company, however, has
secured the exclusive right to use an in
strument invented by Elisha Grey, which
transmits instantaneously, over any length
of wire, messages written at the sending
office. Not only is the reproduction instan-
taneous, but the copy delivered
is an exact reproduction of the
original written by the sender. Anybody
who can write can operate the instrument
No knowledge of telegraphy or electricity
is necessary. The sender picks up pen
ell attached to the instrument, writes out
the message. and the thing is done.
1t is said arrangements are being made
to attach these instruments to the lines
which are now operated with Morse keys.
upon short notice. Some of them have
been attached already, and have been
found to work perfectly. How far the
change will go depends upon circum-
stances.
The morning news., 1897-03-29

1t is a pleasure to find in the proposed
tariff bill at least one feature which can
be commended. One of the great and re-
grettable weaknesses of the American peo-
pie is the desire TO buy away from home
articles which might as well be bought at
home. The Dingley bill proposes to take
hold OF that weakness and, as far as may
be possible, check It. Under the tariff
laws of the present and the past American
travellers have been permitted to bring
in duty free almost any amount of per-
sonal effects, which had been worn or
used and were not 10 be sold or given
away. 1t is proposed that the new law
shall limit the amount of wearing apparel
ana personal effects which each
tourist may bring in free of duty to
the value of slOO This is TO be exclusive
of the personal effects which the tourist
carried out of the country and brings
back. One hundred dollars worth of new
goods for personal use may be brought in
free, but no more.
The amount of smuggling which goes on
under the provision of the customs laws
that personal effects, If they have been
used, may be brought in free, is said to be
prodgeous amounting in value to millions
Of dollars a year. Not only do the people
who go abroad load up their trunks with
articles for their own use, but they bring
back and smuggle in goods for their
friends and acquaintances. To a great
many Americans a Paris label or London
hallmark seems so desirable that they are
willing TO go to a great deal of trouble
and expense, and even to take risks of
getting into the courts, for the sake of
securing bonnets, dresses. coats, gloves,
hats, and the like. with the foreign marks
on them. There are probably persons in
this city who are SO partial to the Paris
trade marks that they send annually to
that city sums of money for articles of
wearing apparel and personal adornment
which might be purchased within a few
blocks Of their residences and at very lit
| tie II any. greater cost. IL is probable,
also, that many Of these articles come
through the custom house as the personal
effects of some friend who has been
abroad. Thus the home merchants are de-
prived OF trade which they ought to have.
and the government is cheated out Of its
! just revenues.
Any reasonable act in the direction OF
checking this disposition TO buy away
from home is 70 be commended. 1t is to be
regretted that some local check cannot be
put upon it.
The morning news., 1897-03-29
A CoIored Nnn on I,vncbinr.

Rev DR.. A. J. Stokes, pastor of the Col
umbus street Baptist church in Nontgom-
cry, Ala, is lecturing in northern cities on
the New South" He is a colored man,
and his church is one of the largest and
most influential in Alabama. He treats of
his subject from the standpoint Of the in
telligent black man. who is anxious for
the moral and material advancement of
his race and his country. 1t is to be hoped
that Bishop Turner of this state may be
able to hear DR.. Stokes lecture. For the
lecturer deals in some plain and pointed
truths which the bishop ignores. DR..
Stokes tries TO bring his hearers, and his
race, into the light of truth; Bishop Tur-
ner endeavors to blind them with preju-
dice and passion.
1T is a mistaken idea" said DR.. Stokes
during a lecture in Philadelphia the other
day, ito believe that the future of our peo-
pie is clouded and overcast. believe it to
be the best outlook we ever had" The
race he explained. was accumulating
property, acquiring education and enjoy
ing full civil rights in the south. Contrast
ing the colored mans condition in the
south and in the north, he showed that
the former was almost incomparably the
better
He is as much opposed to lynching as any
other man, and recognizes and asserts that
the majority of public opinion in the south
IS against it. Yet he declared boldly in
Philadelphia that lynching is not an un-
mitigated evil. Said he: There never
was a respectable colored man Iynched in
the south, except in case of murder. I
speak from my own experience when I
say that in the lynchings l have known
about, the victims were always men no
body in the community could say a good
word for. They came out from the Sums
at night, like the raccoon, and stole back
again The negroes who commit
heinous crimes do the entire race harm,
and while l would not lift a finger myself
TO lynch them, do feel that every one of
such removed from our race, benefits the
race just so much"
Having correctly diagnosed the case, DR..
Stokes knows the remedy to be applied;
and he is advocating it. When the race
has been taught to regard heinous crimes
with abhorrence and when individuals
have learned that the commission of such
crimes will call down upon them the con-
demnation of their own people: that os-
tracism will be visited upon them, and
every mans hand will be against them tc
bring them to speedy justice under the
law, then there will be a cessation of such
crimes. and lynch law viii disappear.
How different is this from the teaching
of Bishop Turner! He says shoot" when.
ever a negro is lynched, no matter what
his charactegor criminality. He would ar
ray violence and lawlessness against vio-
lence and lawlessness, and fan the flame Of
race prejudice and hostility. On the 9th.
er hand DR.. Stokes says educate" Ele-
vate the race Remove the cause, and the
effect will be removed. Preach against
crime: wipe out those crimes which lead tC
lynching, and there win be no more lyncn
ing. 1t should not take intelligent coloret
persons one minute to decide whether
they will follow the advice Of Bishop Tur
ner or DIR. Stokes.
The morning news., 1897-03-29

From the Hartford Times Dem.).

We are so sorry about the case Of poor
Cousin William Mckinley Osborne. who
has been appointed consul-general at Lon
don, an office which was worth $4,000 a
year until Mr. Olney cut down the fees by
an order authorized by Mr. Cleveland.
Now the place Is worth only $4,000 or Sl2. %
0Oo and IL does seem hard that man like
Cousin Osborne. who has held many fat
offices before this, including that of police
commissioner of Boston, should have 20
get along with not more than $4,000 a
year. Cousin Mckinley has said to Cousin
Osborne that he viii revoke Cleveland's
order. " congress can be got TO approve
the revocation. and Cousin Osborne Is ex-
planning 20 the republican senators and
members Just why he ought 70 receive
seven or eight times as much pay as thoy
get and more than any other federal Of
fice-holder except the President himself.
The morning news., 1897-03-29
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The morning news., 1897-03-29

1t is reported that President Mckinley
takes the trouble to sound congressman
who call upon him with regard to the
Dingley bill. This conversation between
the President and republican member of
the House Is quoted in the Chicago Record
as being a typical one: do the people in
your part of the country think the duties
too high?" Most decidedly" was the re-
sponse. "Have you talked to Dingley
about it?" "Yes, but you might as well
talk to a stone" Probably the President
is getting a bit nervous about the effect
of the bill upon the country. politically
and otherwise.
The morning news., 1897-03-29
Springs Advent.
From the Pan Mall Gazette.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
The years on the turn,
The night is toward morn,
winters behind.
There's a sword blade of green
The black earth clods between
And a kiss. on the wind.
The days have grown longer,
The sun has grown stronger,
Robin alone
Shall have sweet company
In the bush and the tree
Ere a great while be flown.
Soon, soon the tall arches
OF beeches and larches
Grow misty and gray,
For the leaves that are coming
The spring that Is homing
The winter away.
The grass shall smell sweet
For the treadiug OF feet;
The crocus shall start;
The daffodil glancing.
And in the wind dancing,
Shall life up the heart.
The years on the turn,
The night is toward morn,
Dawn In her eyes;
And our joys coming home,
Ger the sands and the foam,
With n tender surprise.
The morning news., 1897-03-29
Manufacturers Oppose 1t.
From the Philadelphia Record Dem)

So great is the change of sentiment
among manufacturers as to the policy Of
free raw materials that If the Dingley tar
iff bill had been postponed till the regular
session of congress in December next the
industrial revolt against Il might have
quelled its champions in the committee on
ways and means. The fear that the man.
ufacturers were becoming rapidly recon-
ciled with the present tariff had much
more to do with this hasty action than the
pretended need of revenue.
The morning news., 1897-03-29

The determination OF the republicans
OF North Carolina TO grab all OF the Of
fees in sight has put Wilmington in a
pretty pickle. The city no longer has
home rule but is governed from the state
capital. the governor appointing the ma
jority of aldermen. once North Carolina
was a bulwark against Capitalization;
now she IL In the grasp OF small pollti-
cal ring made up Of probably dozen
bosses.
The morning news., 1897-03-29

A Washington correspondent says one OF
the new congressman the other day ap-
preached the clerk of the House and asked
90 be directed TO the person who issues
When he found out there was no such off,
cial connected with the government he
probably jumped 20 the conclusion that
the pubic service was not perfectly or
ganlzed, and that the railroads ought to
be smashed.
The morning news., 1897-03-29

Chickle is one of the queerly named
things which the republicans have fished
out of the free list and made dutiable, at
10 cents a pound, in the new tariff bill.
1t is said the fine italian hand of trust
is pulling the wires in this matter. Chickle
is extensively used in the manufacture of
chewing gum. Certain manufacturers
have laid in a considerable supply of the
stuff, while certain others have no stock
at all, never dreaming that it would be
made dutiable. The ones with the stock
and means committee, and if the item
goes through. the trust will be enabled
to undersell and freeze out their compet-
itors. There are lots of queer things in
a tariff bill
The morning news., 1897-03-29

This man Hay. nominated for the
English mission, was once a poet. be-
liove." remarked one senator TO another
Yes but don't say anything about it. ."
was the reply. whats the use OF imper-
ling his chances by raking up his record?"
-Pittsburg Chronicle-relegraph
The morning news., 1897-03-29

It Is intimated that Mr.. Andrew d.
White is to be appointed ambassador TO
Germany at the request of the kaiser.
Tne other day it was published that John
Russell Young was TO be made minister
10 China in compliance with the request
OF Il Hung Chang. Are the republican
bosses going to submit TO these foreign
potentates sticking their fingers into the
patronage pie? Where are Lodge, and
Chandler, and the other jingoes?
The morning news., 1897-03-29

A New Orleans dispatch intimates that
Dan Stuart, of prize fight fame. will sue
ceed TO the place once held by the late
Gen. Beauregard in lottery affairs.
Stuart is to try to get a lottery bill
through the Nevada legislature. and II he
succeeds his reward will be the fat job
referred to. He is supposed 20 have great
Influence" with the Nevada legislature.
The morning news., 1897-03-29

From the Birmingham News (Dem.).

The troubles of Secretary Wilson have
commenced. A Texas man has made in
quiry of the Department of Agriculture as
to the value of mardigras for cattle, and
asks for a supply of the seed.
The morning news., 1897-03-29

The French government evidently takes
no stock in any talk or movement look
ing to the disarmament of Europe, since
It will ask for $16O. 100000 with which to
construct forty-fve large warships and
l75 torpedo boats during the next eight
years. Indeed. it would appear that
France is anticipating hard times in Eu-
rope at no very distant day.
The morning news., 1897-03-29
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meeting-skidaway Shell Road Com
pany.
Special Notices-Proposals for Feed,
John E. Mcguire, Fire Chief; Notice Of
Transfer of Stock of National Bank of
Savannah, Ga; Bicycles Are Very Beau
tiful, r. D. & VIM. baltimore; Liquor
Licenses.
Amusements-song Recital, by Madame
Bishop-Searles, Tuesday Evening. March
3d.; The Oriental Opera Company, at The
ater, March %.
A Handsome Souvenir--Metropolita
Clothing Company.
Model %, Henley Bicycles-Lindsay &
Morgan.
Boys Easter supplies-B. H. Levy &
Bro.
Rain or shine-Metropolitan Clothing
Company
Auction sales-Pearl Buttons, by c. H.
Dorsett, Auctioneer; Pianos, Organs, Etc,
by c. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer; Bargains in
Coffee, at Unreserved Sale, A. N. Mani
gault, Auctioneer. Charleston, S. c.
You Are Invited-Metropolitan Clothing
Company
Medical-Hood's Pills; Cuticura Rene
dies; Woman's Friend; Duffy's Malt
whiskey; Scott's Emulsion; Stuart's Dys-
pepsia Tablets.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news., 1897-03-29

It is said that Mr.. Andrew D. White
will be appointed minister to Germany
and Col. Fred Grant minister TO Austria.
1t is probable that these gentlemen would
serve their country in the positions nam
ed about as well as any others the Presi-
dent could find in the ranks OF the repub-
Mcans OF Mr.. Whites qualifications for
the German mission there can be no
doubt. aal4A