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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
Personal.

Judge Jacob B. Blair, who was recent
ly appointed surveyor general of Utah,
was at one time Bill Nyes most intimate
friend, and helped him start his famous
paper, the Boomerang Judge Blair was
twice elected to congress from West Virgil
MIA.
Hon. D. T. Jewett of ST. Louis, who
celebrated his ninetieth birthday in that
city last week, has had an interesting ca
reer. He rose from New England farm
to the United States Senate, and during
his life ran a boat in the Gulf and mined
in California.
The Lotos Club a few days ago,
through its treasurer, D. B. Sickels, cabled
its congratulation to Chulalongkorn. King
Of Siam, at Toplow Croft London. Yester-
day a reply was received from the king,
expressing his thanks TO the club. Sept.
q was his birthday.
For the first time in the history of the
English colonial courts a woman has
been admitted to the bar, in the person
of a young Jewess, Miss Ethel Benja-
min. She is now a barrister and solicitor
duly qualified TO practice in the supreme
court of New Zealand.
David A. Brewer. associate justice of
the United States supreme court, and Sam
uel 3. Capen, a well-known business man
of Boston. are being mentioned for the
presidency Of the American board of COM
missioners for foreign missions to succeed
the Rev. DIR. r. S. Storrs.
Prof. Max Muller repeats in "Cosmo-
polls the extraordinary story of Alex
ander Won Humboldt's habits of sleep.
"As L get old" Humboldt said to him, II
want more sleep, four hours at least.
When l was young two hours of sleep
were quite enough for me-"
During the recent visit to Denmark the
King of Siam was taken to the grave of
Hamlet and after standing a moment in
reverential silence ne turned to Crown
Prince Frederick and said sympathetical-
ly: "a relation of your royal highness, 1
presume. Has he been long dead?'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
Inspection of Foods.

Health officer LeHardy caused consider
able favorable comment in the early part
of the summer by his energetic action in
respect to fresh meats offered for sale in
our markets He could still further win
public approval by insisting upon a rigid
inspection of milk sold within the city.
and the enforcement of federal and state
laws respecting the sale of adulterated
foods.
According to our dispatches yesterday a
paper was read before the national confer
ence of mayors and councilmen at Column
bus o., in which it was stated that there
is practically no milk delivered for general
consumption in cities that is fit to be fed
in it's natural state to young children" It
was further virtually stated that in every
populous community in the land children
are killed by hundreds and thousands by
impure milk, and that but little effort is
made to prevent this destruction of chill
dren.
A few days ago we published an inter-
view with a chemist, in which he said he
had examined specimens of milk sold in
this city. He found milk that was wholly
eased cows. Our health officer declares
that there is great need in this city. not
only for an inspector of milk, but also 1or
other food products. He says that there
are articles sold for food which contain
deleterious, and even poisonous, adulter-
atoms.
We are about to provide our city with a
system of house drainage at great expense,
and why? We are going to do this to
make our homes and our city healthier.
The Improvement is one that is greatly
needed. 1t will be productive of much
good, but we shall not succeed in protect
ing ourselves against preventable diseases
if we permit impure milk and adulterated
articles Of food to come upon our tables.
While we are taking steps to secure purer
air in our homes, we should see to it that
only wholesome articles of food are sold
in our markets and on our streets.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
A CostI,. AIinfnke.

Ii seems 10 us that the cotton farmers
of Georgia ana other states are making
great mistake in depending so largely
upon commercial fertilizers in the grow
ing of cotton. They are putting a big part
of their profits i'm commercial fertilizers,
and it is pretty safe 10 say that the invest
ment is not good one.
The use of commercial fertilizers in this
state is steadily increasing. A glance at
the annual sales of fertilizers will show
that this is the case. For the season of
lS74-75 there We're sold in Georgia Seas
tons; for the season of 1Ssf-S5, 17O.153 tons.
and for the last season, 1869, 4O2. 10 tons.
The amount Of commercial fertilizers
therefore that was used last year was
nearly nine times greater than the amount
used twenty-five years ago. There has, of
course, been a very considerable fall in
the prices Of fertilizers. but the fall in the
prices has not kept pace with the increase
in the amount used.
But why have the cotton farmers found
il necessary 10 put so much of their mon
ey in fertiizers2 Is it not because they
have found that where they have planted
the same fields in cotton year after year
they have been compelled to increase the
amount of commercial fertilizers per acre
lin order to get anything like a fair crop
of cotton? If this be so, how long will
it be before cotton cannot be grown at a
profit, because of the cost of commercial
fertilizers? win not the time come when
cotton will have to be abandoned as a
crop in Georgia?
What is the remedy? Cease using com
mercial fertilizers No because, in that
case, the amount of cotton produced in the
present condition of the lands would not
pay the expenses of cultivating it. What
the farmers must do is this: They must
not plant a field in cotton oftener than
once in three years; they must grow COW
peas and grasses and other crops, which
yield material out of which fertilizers can
be made-fertilizers which will leave hui
mus in the soil. When commercial ferti-
lizers are used on land which has been
given a reasonable rest from producing
cotton, and which has been literally treat
ed with home fertilizers, they give splen-
did results. The cotton farmers, who
adopt this method with their lands, find
that they do not need so much CONNER
cial fertilizers and get a very much larger
yield per acre.
The steadily increasing use of fertili-
zers is a matter to which the farmers
should give the most thoughtful consid-
GRAFTON. They are now simply wearing
out their lands, and the time will come,
unless they change their method of farm
ing, when commercial fertilizers will not
be of much benefit to them. Let them
change their method-that is, let them
give more attention to those crops by
means of which they can build up their
lands-and they will get better yields of
cotton every year. instead of poorer yields,
as they do now
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

The expert testimony in the Luetgert
murder trial in Chicago is just about what
it was expected it would be. After having
heard what the experts had to say as to
the bone which was found in the vat of
Luetgert's sausage factory, the jurors are
no wiser than they were before the ex-
perts testified. DIR. Dorsey who testified
for the state, is an eminent osteologist
He is supposed to know more about bones
of all sorts than anything else. On
the witness stand he said he was positive
the bone shown him was part of the fe-
muir of a woman of delicate struc-
ture. Mrs. Luetgert was such a woman.
The conclusion from DR.. Dorseys testi-
mony is therefore that the bone in ques-
ton Is the femur of Mrs. Luetgert
who, it is charged, was killed by her hus-
band. and her body destroyed in the sau-
sage vat by means of caustlc potash.
1t seems, however, that DIR. Dorseys
knowledge of bones, great as 1t is, is not
considered by all bone authorities to be
beyond question. DR.. Airport, who enlight-
ems the minds of the youth of the North
western University at Evanston in respect
to descriptive and comparative anatomy,
testified for the defendant Luetgert. He
declared the bone which is the subject
of so much attention was nothing but the
bone of hog. If Luetgert used hog meat
in the manufacture of sausages the find
ing of hog bone in his factory was not
in anyway surprising.
The science of osteology cannot have
reached a great degree of exactness if dis
tinguished professors of it cannot agree
as to whether a bone submitted to them is
the bone of a woman or the bone of hog.
Dr. Airport makes one little concession
which may have the effect of creating a
doubt as to the correctness of his opinion.
He says the bone is rather small for the
usual run of hogs. Still, in view of the
fact that there are small hogs the small
ness of the bone is no proof that 1t is not
the femur Of a hog.
This contradictory testimony of the ex-
perts is one of the interesting features
of the Luetgert trial. 1t shows pretty
clearly that expert testimony is procura-
BILE for almost any purpose fer which it
may be desired-not purchased testimony,
but testimony given with the firm belief
that it Is correct.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

The report of the chief Of the bureau of
American republics says that our trade
with the Standardization countries is
showing gratifying increases. Much of
the trade upon which the report is based
was probably exchanged under the VIII
son tariff law This government has
4ately put an import duty upon hides and
other products Of our southern neighbors,
which will tend to diminish the exchange
Of commodities As a matter of fact,
the Argentine republic is now preparing to
duties on the products of the United
States. If we are 10 90 into tariff and
commercial war with our neighDors, it is
difficult to see how We are going to great
ly increase our trade with them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
Give Them a Chnnce.

Civil engineers in this city complain that
they were not consulted in respect TO the
house drainage plan that has been adopt
ed by our city council, and they express
the belief that their services will not be
sought in the engineering work, They
naturally feel aggrieved a what they con-
slider neglect of home talent.
There is some reason in the position
they take. But in view of the fact that
after having studied all the plans pre-
scented the council decided in favor of the
Waring plan they could hardly expect to
have the whole charge of the work. The
work must be done under the general SUI
pervision of the engineer who makes the
plan. The council prefers to have him
supervise it. because having his reputa-
ton at stake he will insist upon rigid
compliance with the specifications. Other
engineers might be equally as strict in
il will hardly be denied that there are adj
vantages in having the work done under
the direction of Col. Warning
But we see no reason why competent
engineers of this city should not find en-
ployment under Col. Waring. Council can
not of course. direct him in this mat
ter, having accepted his proposition, but
it can use its influences to have him en-
ploy engineers living here to give him
whatever assistance he needs. And we
have no doubt council will do this.
Col, Waring would not of course, ac-
cept the services of incompetent men and
council would not desire him to do so;
and he must be the judge of the qualifica-
tions of those seeking employment. We
feel sure. however he can find as salts
factory assistants here as in New York
The employment of competent home tai
ent would allay the feeling of irritation
on the part of home engineers that has
cropped out and would not lessen the
value of the Improvement to the city.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
DIdn,t CoIIect on the POLICY.

Some time ago" says an insurance man
quoted in the Philadelphia Record, "a man
asked me to accompany him home, as he
had some things there to be insured. When
we arrived at his house he showed me
hundred boxes of cigars. which he wanted
insured There were 100 cigars in each
box, making 10000 in all, and were valued
a 10 cents each, so / insured the lot for
$1,000. A few days ago the man came to
me and asked for the insurance money.
You've had no fire at your house. | re-
piled. No, but I've smoked them says
he, and, according TO the paper, / am en-
titled to the money, as ii reads distinctly
that If goods are consumed by fire, money
is paid on application. AS far as techni-
calities were concerned he was all right.
but l knocked hIm cold about a minute
later by saying in very stern manner:
All right. sir; you'll get the money; but,
according to your own confession, l will
proceed al once to make a charge against
you for incendiarism.' We'll. I'll be hang
cdr was all he said, and the room shook
violently after he banged the doorv"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

One feature of the Topeka (xan.) pros
perity' festival worthy of especial men,
ton is the honor that is being paid to a
factory girl, Miss Whitney. She is said
TO be very pretty. Kansas City short
time ago held a festival, at which neigh
boring towns and cities were invited to be
represented by maids of honor" Chilli
clothe elected Miss Whitney as it's maid
of honor" but the social 400 of Kansas
City debarred her from taking her place
in the picture declaring her occupation
a barrier. She was Immediately invited
to become the Queen of Labor at the
Topeka festival and a special train was
sent for her. Arriving at the Kansas cap
ital she was met by the governor and city
officials, and a carriage-and-four were
placed at her disposal for the week. The
parade which she headed is said to have
been four miles long, and there were a
thousand banners bearing legends lauding
the young lady and hurting defiance and
sarcasm at Kansas City. For one week
at least, Miss Whitney will have thous-
and servants, and fifty thousand subjects.
She will be a queen in Topeka until Sat
urday night.
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Registered at the postonoe in Savannah.

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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Lodge No. As, F. &
A NJ; German Friendly Society; Hiber-
I man Society.
Special Notices-Free Samples of Vel
low Leaf Smoking Tobacco; We Are Co
ing to Remain in the Business, r. D. &
VIM baltimore; Interest Notice. The
Chatham Bank; Interest Notice, The Ogle-
thorpe Savings and Trust Company; No
tice to City Tax Payers, c. S. Hardee.
City Treasurer; DR. Paige Resumes Prac-
tice; Interest Notice. Peoples Savings and
Loan Company; Interest Notice, Savan-
nah Bank and Trust Company; Interest
Notice, Citizens Bank of Savannah; Wolf
& Co, Florists; Interest Notice, Southern
Bank of the State of Georgia; Ship No
tice, w. W. Wilson, Consignee; Interest
Notice. The Germania Bank; Notice of
Dissolution. Charles F. Prendergast.
Don't Wait Another Cold Wave-B. H.
Levy & Bro.
School Supplies-Leopold Adler.
Auction Sale-F'urniture, Clothing Etc,
by A. X. Wilson, Auctioneer.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Your Friend?" at
the Theater Tonight.
Railway Schedules-City and Suburban
and Savannah, Thunderbolt and Isle of
Hope Railway.
Gold Dust Washing Powder-N. K Fair
banks Company.
Cottolene-N. X Fairbanks Company.
Legal Notces-Citations From the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
County.
Medical-Scott's Emulsion; Cudcura
Remedies; Johann Hoff's Genuine Malt
Extract; Munyon's Remedies; Woman's
Friend.
Cheap Column Advertisements-H
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

According to the Chicago Chronicle,
Luetgert, the suspected murderer who is
on trial in that city upon the charge OF
having murdered his wife and boiled her
body in a vat of caustic potash, holds a
daily levee in the court room, and re-
ceives the admiring attentions of a great
many women The Chronicle prints a
picture of Luetgerts counsel introducing
young women TO the prisoner. Presume
bly, if It were to be proven that the man
actually killed his wife and ground her
up into sausage meat, and sold the sau-
sages to his regular customers. the young
women of Chicago would fall at his feet
and worship him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

San Francisco dispatches of several
months ago had a good deal to say about
an "Adamless Eden" on one of the Pacific
islands, and the departure of a vessel load
Of prospective Adams in search of the
Eden, the Ewes and the riches and dolce
far niente of that alleged happy land. 1t
transpires, according 10 latest advices,
that the expedition was not a success. The
Adams on the vessel fell TO quameling
among themselves, the co.onization scheme
failed, the men scattered and the craft
went into slave trading. The fact prob
ably is that the Edens have all been pre-
empted the Ewes all have engagements,
actual or prospective. and Adams are al
discount. The lazy fellow who goes
off in search of a Mohammedan heaven
upon this earth always chases a deluslon.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

1t appears that those little wasps of the
navy the torpedo boats, are very danger
Gus to those on board of them as well as
to their enemies. It has been only a short
while since one of them, belonging to
European navy, turned turtle" and sank
with all of her crew. and now the report
comes that another of them has run upon
a sand bar and broken in two. incidentally
causing the death of three members of
the crew. All machines built TO kill peo-
PIE with are dangerous to those who han
die them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

State elections will be held in November
next in the eight states of Kentucky, Vir-
ginia. Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania,
Iowa, Nebraska and Massachusetts,. OF
these, four Massachusetts, Ohio, Iowa
and Virginia. viii elect governors, while
the others win elect various state house
and judiciary officials In the late presi-
Dental election Kentucky was carried by
the republicans. The approaching election
viii probably show whether the bluegrass
people were really voting for republican
ism, or for Mckinley because he stood
upon a sound money platform. The sew
eral elections win be looked to for an in
dication as to which way the political
wind is blowing. There is some interest
manifested in the effect which dollar
wheat will have upon the voters of Ne
braska, Mr.. Bryan's home state.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
The Obfuscation of Frewen.
From the Norfolk Landmark CDem.).

Circumstances lead us to opine that the
Hon. Moreton Frewen, NJ. p, will not be
in such demand as champion of free si.-
yer in the future as he has been in the
past. At the trial of the swindler Cruik-
shank in London Monday, Mrs. Moreton
Frewen admitted having said to the man:
you know all our family are great gam
blers, and il the speculation comes off we
shall be delighted, and II it does not you
will never hear an unkind word from us
That will probably shatter Mr.. Frewen's
enormous reputation as "a toiling mass"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

The Secretary of Agriculture assures the
farmer, according to an exchange, that
the red-headed woodpecker is his best
friend Presumably this has no reference
TO the "Red-headed Woodpecker of the
Pecos" who electrified the populist con-
vention at ST. Louis last July with his
eloquence.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
Cap and Bells.

Laura Simmons in Boston Transcript.
People marked his gay content
Jests and laughter as he went
On his way,
Peddling humble little ware
Through the crowded thoroughfares,
Day by day.
How his CHEEKY voice and air
Wrought as balm and blessing there,
In disguise!
He that knows not grief nor care,
Well may such contentment wear"
Quoth the wise.
When his merry laugh arose,
Making jest of human woes,
BHthe and gay:
Mortal man should sometimes grieve
IT'S not human so to live!
Whispered they.
Some dark secret there may be,
We perchance should spy and see.
IT'S our right
And they stole where he had gone.
To his narrow home, alone,
In the night.
But the eyes that peered within
Met no dark device of sin;
Found no guile
Save a naked SOUL revealed
In its lonely pain Concealed
All in white),
That with bitter tears, outwept
All sorrow that had slept
Meath it's smile.
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sonthern PROGRESS.
From the Philadelphia Ledger Qnd).

With it's own cotton and the fleece of its
own sheep the south is getting ready to
make its cities and towns veritable hives
of Industries. Less politics and more at
tention to business, less repining over
the lost cause and more ambition for the
future, less sectional distrust and more
friendly cooperation with northern neigh
bors-this is the spirit of the south of TO-
day, and 1t is, indeed. a pleasure to learn
that, under such worthy inspiration that
section is fast assuming the proportions of
a land overlooking with milk and honey.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

We do not know how much truth there
is in it, but Cincinnati dispatch in
New York paper says John r. Mclean,
who wishes to go 70 the Senate has is,
sued orders to his workers to let up on
the silver issue and strike hard agains,
''Hannaism." In that case. the campaign
in Ohio is 10 be one of Hannamania
against Hannaphobia. In the Presidents
state Hanna is the whole thing
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LEGAL NOTICES.

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GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY
Whereas, John Nicolson, Jr., has applied
to court of ordinary for letters dismissor,.
as administrator de bonis non cum testa-
mento annexo on the estate of Gilbert But.
Ter, deceased.
These are, therefore, TO cite and admon.
ish all whom it may concern to be and
appear before said court to make obtac.
ton on or before the first Monday in No
vember next, otherwise said letters will be-
granted.
Witness, the Hon. Hampton L. Ferriu
ordinary for Chatham county, this the 3lst
day of July, 1897.
FRANK E. KEILBACH.
Clerk C. o., c. c.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

The Peruvian chamber of deputies a
few days ago took up the matter of the
adoption of the gold standard in the coun-
trys financial system, and, according 10
the reports, there is no doubt that the
change from silver will be made. Judg-
ing from the way things have been going
lately, Mexico will shortly be the only
silver standard country left. If the claims
OF some Of the silverites are correctly
based, that ought to make Mexico the
richest and most prosperous country in
the world in short order.