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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06
Things Look Gloomy.

"Of course" said Mr.. Mizzen, with a
querulous circumhex accent, as he held his
paper out at arms length and struck it
with the back of his hand. "Of courser'
What's the matter, Mizzie. dear?" in
quired his wife, according to the Wash
ington Star.
Things are going wrong again"
why no they're not, dear. The ice is
full weight, your laundry collars came
from the laundry in time this week, and
we have kept the same servant for over
a month";
Did you suppose I was bestowing
thought on the sordid details of domes-
ticity?' was the inquiry.
Il took it for granted you were talking
about the things you generally seem to
take the most interest in" she replied
in some confusion.
81 am thinking of the welfare of my
county. And l am getting more and
more worried about it."
OH she exclaimed, Frightening up
''The country is all right. I've been read
ing all about the country in the paper
The tariff bill is in opera ton, and every
thing Is going to be prosperous in little
while People are finding gold up in Alas
ka and bringing it home in barrels. I'm
sure there isn't anything to worry over
. And then, just think of it," she aded
with sudden inspiration, bicycles have
got so cheap than nearly anybody can af-
ford to have the latest model every year
Nov" said her husband, solemnly
you have struck the keynote. Any stu
dent of history cannot fail to be Impress
ed by the manner in which events fail to
harmonic. Perhaps you know that the
tariff is going TO make a lot of things we
eat more eXpensive?'
Yes. The grocery man told me yester-
day that l might look forward to that"
There is the sad coincidence. There
is a new Illustration of the manner in
which the human race is, from year to
year, and from century to century, kept
hustling to make both ends meet. Just
at the time when it becomes expensive to
run the table, the price of bicycles drop
so that everybody will be out pedaling
with all his might TO get up an appetite"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06
Orcnnized Charities.

The movement to organize all the vari-
Gus charities in the city and put them
under one management is an excellent
one The chief thing necessary TO the
success of such an organization is a man
ager having an abundance of common
sense, plenty of backbone and good eXeeu-
tive ability.
There is a great deal given in charity
in this city, but much of 1t is given in
such way as to make paupers rather
than to relieve distress. Kind-hearted and
charitably disposed people are easily i'm
posed upon They often permit their feel
ings to override their judgments when ap-
pealed. to for assistance by those who al
lege they are suffering from poverty.
There are many charities in Savannah,
and often they duplicate each others
work. In that way charity funds are not
always distributed fairly. The persist
ent seekers for aid get more than they
are entitled to, while modest sufferers
from poverty are to some extent over
looked and neglected.
The most active and observant of our
charity workers have understood for a
good while that there was imperative need
for a different system of dispensing char
ity. They have spoken of the evils Of
the methods employed in distributing
aims, and have urged that all the chart
table organizations be brought under one
general management The Morning News
urged the adoption of their views more
than a year ago, but at that time it
seemed impossible to secure concert Of
action.
1t looks now. however as if an organi-
cation of the different charities would be
effected. The committee which has the
matter in charge is to map out a plan
and report at a meeting which will be
called by the mayor. The mayor is in
hearty sympathy with the movement and
is doing all he can to make it a success.
He recognizes its Importance and the
necessity for organization. If an organi-
cation is effected and it is successful it
will owe much of its success to him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

There" she said, as she finally got the
check properly Endorsed, and handed 1t to
the paying teller; I'D like to have the
money, please"
The young man scanned it carefully, and
then looked at her. says the Washington
Star
rs there anything wrong with it?' she
inquired apprehensively.
mo; l am sure it's all right Only we
let you have the money you will have to
be identified"
But the friends I am visiting took a
trip out into the country with my mother
this morning.
Then you will have to wait till to-mor-
row."
but need the money to do some shop
ping with this afternoon.
I'm very sorry"
ITS absolutely necessary to be identf-
fied?" she asked, plaintively.
absolutely"
Gwen, 1 suppose I can manage it. VIII
the bank be open for an hour?"
Eyes"
"Then I'll hurry home and put on my
evening gown. It's a great deal of trou-
bic, but it's the only way. and I'm glad
l happened to think of it."
81 don't quite understand"
"Why, l have a strawberry mark on
my right shoulder; and everybody who
has read anything at all knows that there
isn't any better identification than a
strawberry mark
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

Some years ago, says the Chicago
Times-Herald, J. NJ Bent, the banker
mayor Of Mount Sterling, a small city in
Eastern Kentucky, went to Louisville
with some specimen strips Of meat that
had fallen in a shower near Mount Ster
ling. Mr.. Almond of the Courier-Journal
was detailed TO proceed TO Mount Sterling
70 do UP the "carnal shower for the
Courier-Journal.
It was fact that a shower of meat
mad fallen, as stated, and to this day it
has not been accounted for satisfactorily.
But many thought it was a little repeti-
ton Of the falls of mamma that came so
providentially and Opportunely to the chill
dren of Israel in the threatened famine
of their long march across the wilder
ness. But why it should have fallen just
at that time in the neighborhoOd of Mount
Sterling was something that the people
there could not understand, for the reason
that Mount Sterling is in the beautiful
and fruitful bluegrass region, and the
crops had been particularly prolific that
season. At any rate, nobody was hun
cry in that vicinity, and no one had eaten
any of the meat. nor could any one be
induced to do so.
For the sake of his story Almond was
anxious to get somebody to eat a strip
of the celestial concarni, and finally just
as he was about to leave on the steam
cars, an Irishman at the station said he
wouldn't mind eating a bit of it. Almond
held strip about the size of a large fin
ger in one hand and a $5-piece in the
other, and told the gentleman from Erin
that he woulfi give him the five if he
would eat that piece of meat.
Sure, said Pat, we wouldn't expect
a gtntleman to ate mate wadout bread
AMI other fixins?"
No" said Almond. 1--WE will go to the
restaurant across the way, and 1 will or
der the accomplishments
They proceeded to the place mentioned,
crowd following, and a nice meal was
prepared for the "gintleman," the strip
of upper-air meat being temptingly spread
on dish among the other viands.
Almond was getting uneasy lest he
should miss his train, so he tried to hur-
~ the Irishman and the latter said:
"Begorra, Dim in the habit of takin'
bit of a drink before atein'"
Whisky was ordered for Pat, which he
drank with much apparent relish. Then
he fell to and ate heartily of the meal,
not touching the heaven-sent meat, how
ever, and when Almond expostulated Pat
declared he was laying a foundation for
the strange stuff. Finally, however he fin
ished the meal with the meat still I'M
touched, and at last exclaimed:
'Bedad, sor OF forgot wan thing. This
is the saisOn of Lint; a fasht of the Howly
church, an, moreover, this is Friday of
the week, an as Oh am a devout Catho-
lie Oh wouldn't dare to ate the mate"
And he didn't but he had got a drink
and a good square meal and Almond
had big laugh, which, Notwithstanding
it was at his own expense, he enioyed
hugely, as did all the witnesses of the
scene.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

We cannot help thinking that the cali
ing of a congress of the colored educators
and farmers of Southwest Georgia, at Al
bany, to discuss questions having for their
object the elevation of the colored peo-
pie is a movement in the right direction
While comparatively few of those col
ored people who are in the greatest need
Of civilization and uplifting influences will
be present, those who do attend the con-
gress will be so strongly impressed by
what they hear of the need of greater eff
forts for the uplifting of the colored peo-
pie that they will strive with greater
energy in their Respective fields of labor
to make their race morally, intellectually
and materially better.
The meeting of the congress will take
place on Nov. II and continue for two
days. Some of the best known of the
leaders of the colored people of the state
have prepared papers to read before the
congress. The following are some of the
subjects which will be discussed in these
papers: THE Best Method of Building
Character in Youth" "A Better Observ-
ance of the Sanitary Laws by the Col
ored People on Southwest Georgia" "A
Greater Distribution of the Colored Peo-
pie Into the Territories Where the Popu-
lation Is Less and the Territory More"
The Necessity for Better Practical Edu-
cation Among Our People" 1T Is Said
the Negro Has Become Criminally Worse
Since 1892; If So, Why?" "The Better OBJ
servance of Sunday" 1.-THE Necessity of
the Colored People Purchasing More Land
in Unoccupied Territory, in Counties of
the State" The Necessity of Colored
Youth Learning More Trades and Be
coming Better Acquainted With Skilled
Labor"
These subjects show the general drift
and purpose of the congress. We have
no doubt that the effect of the discus
sions will be good. 1t is by constant eff
fort in the right direction that the race is
to be lifted to a higher plane of civiliza-
ton. The change for the better is neces-
sarly slow. 1t may be hardly noticeable
in generation. A generation, however.
is but little period in the life of a race.
If the colored leaders raise their people
to a very little higher state of civiliza-
ton in half a century they will have rea-
son to congratulate themselves.
The colored people ought to be encour-
aged to be Industrious moral and thrifty
and we are certain that the white peo-
pie are willing TO encourage them to cul.
tiVate these virtues
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06
Opposition to House Drainage.

We shall be very much mistaken if the
opposition to house drainage amounts to
a great deal. The fact Is, every citizen
who feels a deep interest in the city, and
is anxious for her prosperity, knows that
a system of house drainage is a necessity
that the city ought to have been pro-
vided with it many years ago To put
off the Improvement longer would amount
almost to a crime. .f
The city council is to be commended for
taking hold of this matter of house drain
age so vigorously and pressing it to a
conclusion with such prompness We
venture to say that its action thus far
has the approval of nne-tenths of the
people. So confident is it that it is do
ing what ought to be done, and what the
best interests of the city require, that
the protests Of few property holders
Will not cause them to even think of
abandoning their house drainage policy.
good system of house drainage will
save liVeso,and tbs saving Of even a few
lives each year is of far more Importance
than the saving of a few dollars to pro
testing householders.
As we understood it,, only householders
are protesting who own houses which are
not now connected with sewers or the
water mains. The occupants Of these
houses depend upon dry webs and public
hydrants. In this age OF sanitary science
all houses in cities of the size of this
should have good closets and an ample
supply of water.
fr7t
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

That package of dirty and disreputable-
looking paper money from New orleans,
received at the treasury department the
other day, and from which all of the en-
ployes ran away, may prove of great in
direct vaiue TO the people of the whole
country. 1t was feared in the department
that the bills contained germs of yellow
fever. They were in a condition laying
them open to the suspicion of harboring
almost any kind of disease germs-dirty
greasy, ragged and ill-smelling. The in
cident has caused good deal of COM
ment all over the country, and pressure
is being brought to bear to induce the gov
ernment to make some arrangement for
taking up old and soiled bills as fast as
they are received and issuing new and
c.ean ones in their stead The Bank of
England never gives out any but brand
new bills, with the result that British pa
per money is always clean. A regulation
of similar import is needed in this coun-
try.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06
The EcXer Sitnntinn.

When the yellow fever made its appear
ance in New Orleans we expressed the
opinion that it would not reach
looks now as If this opinion
would prove to be correct. In our
dispatches yesterday it was announced
that the people of New Orleans regarded
the worst of the fever as about over, and
that families which have been away for
the summer, or which left the city when
the first cases of fever We're announced,
are preparing to return to their homes be-
ing satisfied from the advices they receive
from their friends and physicians that
they would run no great risk in doing so.
No doubt cases of the fever will con-
tinue to appear throughout this month,
and perhaps part of next month, but the
number will not be large nor will the death
rate be high. Indeed the death rate has
been very low so far, and there are rea-
sons for thinking that it will continue to
be low.
AT ocean Springs, where the first cases
occurred the fever has about disappeared,
and at all the other infected places there
has been a noticeable improvement in the
fever situation. Within a very few days
there will be doubtless a great modifica-
ton of the quarantine regulations, which
so seriously interfere with travel and the
transportation lines. 1t Is a question
whether land quarantine is sufficiently eff
fective to put a check on the spread of the
fever Assuming that it is, it ought to be
directed with more intelligence and
greater unity of action than has been the
case during the present fever scare.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

The uniformed guard at the entrance OF
the Field Columbian Museum stopped the
man in the brown suit, who was about to
go in through the turnstile, says the Chi
cago Tribune.
Il can't let you take that cane inside"
he said.
"Why not?" demanded the other.
IT'S against the rules You'll have to
check il al that window
what win that cost?"
at viii cost you cents"
1.-The man in the brown suit hesitated
This is the Field museum, isn't it?" he
asked.
Yes"
Marshall Fiolds?p
Yes. He's the man it's named for"
We'll; I'll be everlastingly gum-dasted
if I'll stand it, don't care for the nickel,
but I bought this cane of Marshal Field,
by Jocks, and I'm not going to pay him
for keeping il half an hour while l look
a his old show"
And he went away, uttering dreadful
things
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

All Of this pother about the forthcom-
ing bill TO he presented to the legislature
for the purpose of reforming the convict
system of the state is just working into
the hands of those who would like to de-
feat the reformation and have the lease
system perpetuated. Anything which
tends to produce confusion and delay is
so much of good material for the oppon-
ents Of reform, although it may come
from persons who are really anxious
to abolish the lease system and give
the state model penal establishment.
To set the matter tangled and the reform
ers to disagreeing with each other would
mean the postponement of the matter by
the legislature.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

Warwick-the very name is redolent of
England and all that pertains thereto-was
waking down New York street the 9TH
er day when he espied an Indian, in fun
war paint and with tomahaw1 aloft. Be
ing TOO close to turn and risk flight, for
the fellow would surely throw his hatch
ct and hit him in the back Warwick in
stantly concluded that he must fight at
once and fight hard if he wished TO es-
cape with his life. Like lightning he hit
out one fist following the other and
catching the Indian on the nose and the
chin. The force of Warwick blows over
balanced him and he fell, and the Indian
fell on him. Warwick whooped for help,
and the keeper of the cigar stand rushed
out and pulled the Indian off him. When
they were disentangled. seeing the Indian
did not rise, Warwick inquired anxiously
Did l kill him? Have l committed a
crime?" But" he added Il had TO do
it, he threatened me with his Ratchet, and
after we were down he punched me-"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

Mr.. Pa@notre, the French ambassador at
Washington, has been promoted" to be
ambassador at Madrid Diplomatists do
not regard the change as promotion"
in any sense, but rather as a reduction.
There appears upon the surface of things
no reason why the genial Frenchman
should be reduced, so Washington gossips
have been casting about for some possible
and plausible reason, and they have about
reached the conclusion that NJ Patenotre.
has been disciplined by his government
for marrying an American girl-AIiss FL
verson of adelphia-without the con-
sent of his government.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

A Chicago specialist wishes to hypnotize
Luetgert. in order to make him tell wheth-
er he killed his wife and boiled her body or
not. After six weeks in the charnel house
where they are holding court in Chicago.
and an intimate association with bones
said TO be those of his murdered wife, it
may be doubted that the man would be
found beyond hypnotic influence. If he
were not a phlegmatic German the
chances are that he would now be crazy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

Chesapeake oyster experts say the BIZ
valves are better this year than has been
The case for a long time and that they
VIII continue TO improve until Christmas
Whenever you see that bright, green
seaweed in the water said an expert
pointing to feathery, saun-like weed
clnging TO an oyster shell, the oysters
are good. That weed provides oxygen for
the oysters, and when you get lot of
oysters with the weed sticking to the
shell, you may expect a treat" Now. did
Mckinley aud the Dingley bill bring pros
perify to the oysters?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

A Chicago editor has raised a nest of
hornets about his ears by asserting in his
newspaper that the Presbyterian church
Is tagging behind other denominations"
and mas lost its great birthright' because
of quarrels among its members. He in
stances the case of DR.. Briggs, Henry P.
Smith and others. The chances are that
the Presbyterians interested will now
hold sessions with the editor and point out
to him the error of his conclusion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

While the President and some members
Of his cabinet are making church-roofs
Of their hands, arching their brows and
talking Of the goodness Of the civil serv-
ice law, the Attorney General ana his as
sistants are busily engaged in punching
holes in the law through which partisaus
and spoils hunters may crawl into good
jobs. Only few weeks ago the Attor-
ney General gave an opinion virtually an
nulling the law in its application to a
number of offices, and now the Assistant
attorney General is preparing to upset the
law IN favor Of the patronage mongers
ana spells hunters who want the places
oAoef the collectors and marshals.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

The New York Maritime Register is
making a fight in favor of putting all pas
that is, doing away with the distinction
''first cabin" and second cabin" The
distinction, it says, is un-Amerlcan and
distasteful 10 those persons who do not
care 20, or unable to pay fancy prices for
the first cabin" distinction. Nobody OBJ
jects to the opuient traveller paying extra
for extra service or for a pick of the
rooms, but there are objections to draw
ing broad line between classes as is now
done. The Registers idea mas much to
commend it. one big transatlantic line
viii adopt it,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06
The Cost of yellow Fever.
From the New York Herald Qnd).

Although the loss of life in the fever
stricken section of the south is most dis
tressing, the cost of the contagion to bus
mess is assuming an aspect that causes
even graver concern. 1t is estimated that
i'm New Orleans alone the loss will be
SIS 600, Co., while the loss in other direc-
tons and the cost of maintaining the
quarantine will run the total up 70 $3S,C00.-
coo. People in more favored sections may
well extend their sympathy to the people
Of The scourge stricken section.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06
Faith.
From the New York Tribune Rep.).

A man came up to Lord Palmerston in
Piccadllly and said "NIr. Smith, 1 be-
lieve?" IF you believe that said Pam"
you'll believe anything" The same may
be said of the English paper which be-
lieves that the minis of India, France
and the United States will soon be open
for the free coinage of silver at a ratio
Of Is to /. Faith has been defined as a
belief in things which you know 'aint
So" and that seems to be the kind which
animates the English paper aforesaid.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06
Two sides to the Proposition. .
From the New York Times Dem).

Ex-Gov. Peter Turney of Tennessee has
suggested that for economy's sake the
state might cut down the number of it's
legislators, leaving a Senate of ten mem
bers and a House of Representatives of
twenty Others say that this plan if car
ried out, might make the two houses very
easy to manage by trusts ana corpora
tons.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

If Mr.. Henry George really wishes to
be mayor of New York, he should dis
courage multiplicity of nominations and
Endorsements. Such things sometimes
work backwards, as was Illustrated in
the presidential campaign of last year.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

If Loftin, the Hogansville negro should
be petted and growled over much more,
it would give him the idea that he really
is of some Importance. Already it APP
pears that he regards himself as a ward
of the nation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

A Philadelphia newspaper has an item
about 'love-lorn bicyclist" who attempt
ed suicide in a park the other day. Other
riders will wonder why the young fellow
did not possess himself of his favorite '97
model and save his life.