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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
Ses-s-----'
bruce and the Spider.

Another cherished delusion is gone, says
the Brooklyn Eagle. Ever since Robert
Bruce became a character in historical lit
erature we have heard and believed the
story of the spider, whose persistent in
dustry before his eyes gave him fresh cour-
age to renew the struggle for Scottish lib
erty against the English foe. For genera
tons that spider has gone spinning
through the imagination until the threads
of the tale became as firmly fixed in our
minds as ever Robert Bruce was upon
his throne. The incident has been one of
the stock themes in addresses to school
children nigh a century. School histories
have pictured it as one of the great things
in their somewhat hazy records of mediev-
al Scotland.
William Tell and the apple might be
nothing but a sun myth, but we felt we
could cling to Bruce and the spider; there
was something human and likely about
that while the exploit of shooting an ap-
pie from a boys head With a cross bow
was little uncanny. 1t seems, however
that our faith is again to be houted and
once more the finger of scorn points us
out as credulous folk, easily pleased with
an old wives tale.
A new life of Robert Bruce is about to
be published, written by one of those pes
tilent fellows whose thirst for realism is
sufficient to wreck all that is romantic
in twenty literatures if he have the oppor-
tunity. The historical Gradgrind has dis
covered that there is no foundation for
the story of Bruce and the spider, that
the plucky fellow never watched the little
insect triumph over obstacles, was never
encouraged thereby to fresh efforts against
his foes, and that really the only fact in
that is so remote and so common that no
one is interested
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

Mile. calve laughed over the story until
the tears ran down her cheeks. says the
New York sun.
1t was only the second time l had ever
been on the stage" she had commenced.
1t was at the theater de la Monnaie, in
BRUSSELS, fourteen years ago I had made
my debut as Marguerite. and the next
part l was TO sing was Cherubino in La
Nozze de Figaro L was dreadfuliy thin
then. My arms'-here Mile. Calve held
these members out in all their present
plumpness-''were very small. So were my
neck and my shoulders. and. of course,
my legs. 1 decided that 1 could not think
OF appearing in trousers as l was. So L
went to my costumer and had him make
me pair of pads. He made them accord
ing to his own ideas. l did not put them
on until the night of the performance, and
! did not realize myself how looked. But
I must have been a sight. From the waist
up | was a thin, painfully thin, undevel-
oped girl But my calves were enormous
After the second act the manager rush
ed around to my dressing room in great
excitement.
'"Mon Dieup he said; where in the world
did you get those legs? They are certain
~ not your own had to admit that they
We're not; but L said l was too thin to ap-
pear in trousers without pads. Don't you
know he said that a young girl with
straight pretty limbs is one of the most
beautiful sights in the world? Take off
those pads and get out in your own legs.
II took his advice and dropped Oft the
pads. When1 appeared again on the stage
I was thin, but l was symmetrically at
least But the effect on the audience was
startling. 1 seemed to see all the people
in the house craning their necks and try
ing to see what had happened to me dur
ing the few minutes l was off the stage
that could have such a difference in my
appearance. The conductors eyes near
ly popped out of his head. l never wore
pads afterwards, and l have wondered
what the people must have thought when
they simply saw the change in my appear
ance and had no explanation of it,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

Alas, poor Pefferi He knows now what
"the ingratitude of republics" means. He
has been one of the most consistent of
populists. He has never ceased to agitate
in favor of starting all of the printing
presses in the country to printing sheets
of bills of money, perforated in squares
like sheets of postage stamps, for distribu-
ton directly to the people. He has intro
duced more populistic ideas into congress
than any other man who ever sat in either
house. He has sought, in every manner
possible, to demonstrate his claim that the
government can abolish poverty, by work.
ing various members of his family into the
public service at good salaries. He has
been an ever yawning and hungry hopper
through which to pour bills and resolu-
tions into the congressional mill. He has
consistently refused to patronize barber
during the whole of his term. And yet the
populists of Kansas have abandoned him
in their base ingratitude. 1t will be his
sad fate to return to the plains of Kan
sas. where the winds will make harps of
his PETERS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
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Household Words.

Compiled by the humorist of the New
York Sun:
Don't forget to order a load of coal sent
up. right away.
oh, mamma, Willie's pinching me.
Come on to your dinner before every
thing gets cold.
Say. John, amt you boys up yet?
Yes, dear, $40 will do, but SIS would be
better.
Where's that half-dollar gave you last
week?
But, my dearsh you sh' know had en-
gashement at tn office till eho late
COUNT possibility come.
Good gracious, how much money do you
want anyhow?
No. shanf have any young men COM
ing to see you until you are out of school
So there.
Oh papa, make Dick quit calling me
names.
Orm sorry. mem. but Ofll have to be
afther lawn yez, the day, mem.
Now lay me down to sleep.
Lemme be.
Come. now. it's time for you young
ones to be in, bed.
No. you can't have any more cake.
Who the deuce carried off that paper?
Did anybody see my hat?
D. that collar button!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
ORDINANCE.


BY Committee on Fire
An ordinance to permit J. H. H. Emil
man of the city Of Savannah, to ere
three 90 frame houses on lots q and
Wesley ward, to cost not less than S'
each.
Sec. /. Be it ordained by the mayor az
aldermen of the city of Savannah
council assembled. That permission
and it is hereby given to J. II, II. Entl'
man of the city of Savannah, TO ere
three go frame houses on lots q and
Wesley ward in said city, to cost not leI
than 5000 each.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained that
ordinances and parts of ordinances in coI
fiict with this ordinance are hereby \
pealed, in so far as they apply to this 81
cial case.
Ordinance passed in council Jan. lS' ~
HERMAN MYERS, Mayor
Attest: A. ". MANUCY,
Clerk Of Council.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

An enemy to the high hat more terri
BILE than the constable has appeared in
Chicago and other western cities. 1t is
the gallery god The gallery gods name
is legion, and his voice is more to be
feared than the batons OF many consta-
bles. When the gallery god condemns a
play, it must go; and when he takes it
into his head to regulate certain matters
about the theater. the matters are pretty
certain to be regulated. He has declared
against the high hat. Very few. il any,
of them ever obstruct his view He is
above the follies of fashion. and looks
over the heads of fashions devotees from
a lofty hight. Nevertheless, the spirit of
justice moves the gallery god against the
high hat. and his onslaught is irresistl-
BILE In a Chicago theater the other
night the galleries howled and hooted
ana whistled until every hat in the pit
had been removed. In Denver the same
sort OF thing happened. The high hat is
doomed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
Winter TradinE.

There isn't much demand for bicycles
now. You ought to sell them cheap. How
much do you ask for this one?" quotes
the Chicago Tribune.
Forty dollars. It's 500 wheel. Never
been out of the shop"
Twenty-Five dollars is all can afford
to put In machine. Give you $25 for it,
Cant let it so at that price. Here
one though, you can have for SIS. Eighty
dollar wheel, and good as new"
give you SIS for It,"
Cant possibly sell 1t for that have
here machine, however, that we sold last
summer for SIS. It's secondhand, but
never has been ridden 100 niles altogether.
You can see IT'S practically as good as
ever. and we warrant 1t. You can have 1t
for SIS
Give you $40 for It,"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

II what Mr.. Mckinley and his friends
are saying. in respect to the tariff peas-
ure, which the ways and means commit
tee is now preparing, is to be relied upon,
the changes in the tariff laws will not be
very radical. The aim is to get more rev.
enue. 1t is well understood that more pro-
lection does not mean more revenues. IT
means less revenue. Therefore it is prob
able that additional revenue will be raised
by increasing the tax on beer, or by put
ting a tax on sugar. A very high tariff
on articles produced in this country would
simply lead to the formation Of trusts and
monopolies, in order to get the higher
prices in the domestic market which
high protective tariff would permit. As
soon as the people should discover how
ever, that the manufacturers were
charging them higher prices
than they were getting for
their products in foreign markets, they
would become dissatisfied, and would DC
mand lower tariff duties.
Another reason why it is thought the
tariff measure will be a conservative one
it in the Senate. 1t is doubtful il a tar
if bill, like the infamous Mckinley tar
III bill, could be got through the Senate.
1t would be nonsense therefore. to send
such bill to that body.
What the republicans want to do is 10
have It understood that the tariff is a
republican tariff, so that if prosperity
comes from any cause. they can point TO
the tariff and say prosperity is due to a
republican tariff. and thus seem to have
proved the correctness Of their eonten-
ton, namely. that 60 the lack of revenue
is due the lack of Prosperity. and that a
republican tariff has brought more reve-
nue., and therefore prosperity. As before
stated, however. they will take care that
additional revenue is raised from tax
on sugar or an additional tax on beer, but
they will endeavor TO make it appear that
the republican doctrine of protection is
entitled to the credit for prosperity.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

Nine. Melba, the prima donna has been
compelled to cancel her engagements in
this country, and return TO Europe. Sew
en- times recently she was unable to sing.
owing to a failure Of her voice. Whether
or not the failure will prove permanent or
only temporary. cannot yet be told. There
is one story told to the effect that Media
Is in huff because of Calves success.
But those in a position to know say that
story is silly; that the great singer is act
ually in danger Of a complete breakdown.
and that at present her voice Is really i'm
paired.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

There is a bill before congress to make
train wrecking or the holding up of trains
for the purpose of robbery. a capital Of
Tense. Criminals who commit such out
RACES as that which resulted in the ter
rible disaster at the Cahaba river bridge
recently deserve the severest punishment
that the law can inflict upon them. The
train wrecker and the train robber are
murderers at heart. whether murder act
ually results from their operations or not.
and they deserve to meet the fate of
murderers
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
Would Crown the Century.
From the Philadelphia Ledger Qnd.).

II would be very gratifying to have an
arbitration treaty with France, as pro-
posed, on the basis OF the one with Great
Britain. If this were accomplished, one
with Russia would logically follow. and
then the other nations could scarcely avoid
falling into line II would be a glorious
achievement for the United States 10 mark
the close OF the nineteenth century with an
agreement for universal arbitration among
the nations, and its own position as the
leader In such work would be great be-
yond precedent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
$40 war in Cuba"
From the Baltimore Herald (Dem.).

The stand taken by the United States
court in florida in the case of the Three
Friends Is entirely consistent. The govern
ment iIf Washington has not recognized
a state OF war in Cuba, and, therefore,
cannot libel ship for carrying arms to
support a rebellion which has no official
existence. 1t is a hard dose for some peo-
pie in the United States to swallow, but
1t is quite evidently the law.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

Senators Frye and Hale are responsible
for a bill, which has passed the Senate,
which provides among other things that
any master or other officer of an American
vessel on the high seas, or within the ju-
risdlction of the United States, who,
without justihable cause, beats, wounds
or imprisons any of the crew of such YES
sell" shall be punished by fine or imprls-
onment, or both 1t has been claimed
that the qualification, without justifiabie
cause" practically permits the beating of
seamen by masters and officers of vessels
for justifable cause, in other words, that
one effect of the bill would be to revive
the cat-'o-nine-tails in the American mer-
chant marine. Taking this view of the
bill the Western Seamen's Friendly So
ciety of Cleveland. has adopted strong res
buttons condemning the senator's named
for attempting to pass any such vicious
bill through congress. 1t is claimed by
the senators and their friends, however,
that the language of the bill cannot possi-
bly, be contorted into an authorization #
the revival Of the cat in the merchant
marine.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

Wow! Has the American Protective
Tariff League noticed that Mr. Mckinley
is having his portrait painted by foreign
artist? What win Judge Lawrence ana
the Ohio sheep say to this?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

The New York state senate has passed
the resolution providing for a Joint com
mittee TO investigate the trusts. The
House will probably concur It is TO be
hoped the committee win be able TO tell
the public after It's Investigation just what
a trust is, and how the bad trusts may be
throttled.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

Sixteen years or so ago Senator Thomas
Q. Plat Of New York got mad with
President Garfield about something. and
throwing down his toga, refused to help
make the laws for this great nation any
longer Since then he is believed to have
regretted his action many times and he
has been suspected more than once OF
tying TO sidle up 10 the discarded toga
stsalthlly aud return It to his shoulders
with a def twist OF the wrist. However
that may be. he has at last got to the
place where he may resume 1t boldly. 1t
would be safe, probably. to wager some
thing pretty against an express frank
that he VIII not hastily DON the garment
again. F
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

--Riotous Realism.-'I painted a win
ter scene the other day that was so true
to nature that the thermometer in my
studio fell 20 degrees"
'Humphl that's nothing. I painted a
portrait of old Brown last year that was
30 hfelke that I had to shave IL regu-
larry. "-Harpers Bazaar.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

Arthur Duestrow, the millionaire MUIR
derer of Missouri. will explate his crime
upon the gallows. His wealth cannot
purchase for him one moments immunity
from the consequences Of his deed. He
brutality murdered his wife and child.
after drunken spree. Il is to the credit
Of the courts OF Missouri that they will
send white man and a millionaire to
the gallows Just as readily as they would
send black pauper for similar crime
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

The Alabama state democratic executive
committee did wisely in refusing to bar the
gold democrats" from the councils of the
party. These democrats may be needed
hereafter. The committees action, by the
way, gives promise of a return of the era
of good feeling in democratic ranks in Ala
bama.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
No Reciprocity.

From Springfield (dass) Republican Qnd.)
Senator Burrows of Michigan comes
away from Canton pilgrimage with the
announcement that there will be no reci-
procity in the new tariff. This was evil
dent long ago. Reciprocity involves con-
cessions in tax rates, and the next tariff
must concern itself only with accessions
to tax rates.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

A New Jersey woman some time ago
sued for divorce. Her husband was away
in the gold fields OF Australia, and she
had got tired of waiting for him to come
back The divorce was granted, upon
the ground Of desertion. Meantime the
husband Struck it rich" in the gold
fields, made a fortune and came back 10
this country to find himself wifeless. He
did not remain without companion long,
however. but married a woman of wealth.
Upon learning the facts. wife No. l re-
pented of her haste. But it was too late
10 share the ex-husband's fortune in a
mutually agreeable way. 80 she is suing
the discarded husband for allmony.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

Mr.. Thomas C. Mendenhall. the presi-
dent Of the Worcester Polytechnic Insti-
tute, Is mentioned as a possible success
sor OF the late Gen. Francis A. Walker,
as president Of the Massachusetts, Insti-
tute Of Technology.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

The Pennsylvania legislature has before
St a good roads bill that deserves the at
tention of law making bodies of other
states. The bill proposes that $1,OOO.cG0
shall be appropriated for good road build
ing during the year, and that it shall be
apportioned among the townships in pro-
portion to the number of miles of roads
which the townships will improve. and
the amount of their own money they will
expend in road improvements. Thus the
townships which do the most for them
selves will receive the most aid from the
state, up TO a certain limit. A limit is pro-
posed. so that the richer townships shall
not monopollze the appropriation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

Chicago is right after New York with a
greater city scheme. The Chicago coun-
ell has taken action looking to bringing
the whole of Cook county into the corpo-
rate limits. A commission will draft bill,
TO be submitted to the Illinois legislature,
providing that the townships of Cook
county shall be abolished and the whole
country brought under the Chicago mu-
nicipal government. The scheme was per-
fected and introduced into the council by
Alderman Madden, who was the other day
defeated for United States senator. MIR.
Madden is probably taking steps to make
himself solid with Chicago against the
time of another senatorial election.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
JOHN 6. BUTLE1

--DEALEH IN
Paints. Oils and Glass, Sash, Doors. Bllnl
and Builders Supplies, Plain ana DsJ
rative Wall Paper. Foreign and DonlssI
Clements, Line. Plaster and Hair. %
agent for Asbestine Cold Water Paint
40 Congress and 1889 st. Julian streets
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22

From the Washington Post Qnd.).
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
CURRENT COMMENT.
Indictment on the Judges.

UUSHItHN UH tIC q UUsVN'
From the Augusta Chronicle Dem).
Not guilty, but don't do it again.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-30
south Christian.

Bell, KY. April PA occasionally
see letters from our neighboring towns
in yours and other papers, and have
often wondered why it was that we
have never had correspondent from
this place. | think it adds to or
rather awakens ones interest in his
town to know that the eyes of the
public are watching the progress of
its development. As yet we have
only one store, postoffice and a
blacksmith's shop; but we hope ere
long even under Mckinley rule to
blossom forth into something greater;
we have hopes of some day competing
in magnitude with Garrettsburg, or
even the birth place of Thos. NJ. Bar
ker, HinsleytOwn, Ky. Our general
supply store, owned and managed by
Mr.. T. F. Clardy, with the able assis-
lance of L. A. Tuggle as clerk, is
having very large spring trade, and
nelghborlng stores are sorely tried at
tempting to compete with his price,,
Tommy as he has, been called, is
good business man and deserving of
success. DR.. Austin Bell is contem-
plating a move to your city where he
will practice his profession.
The farmers in this section are
about through planting corn and are
now preparing their tobacco land.
There will be about rs per cent of a
tobacco crop put out in this section.
Wheat is looking fairly we'll and we
think will make an average yield.
We would like to have letter in
your paper every week and | would
suggest either the Hon. Austin Peay
or Capt. G. D. Bell as suitable man
to write those letters, because either
OF them, in the absence of news to
write of, could write an incident of
the late war, or something of that
kind, that would be of interest not
only to us here, but readers of your
paper elsewhere Hoping that they
will think seriously of this, | will
sign myself, B.L.
Will be glad to hear from either of
the gentlemen at any time.-E ditor.