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The evening times., 1897-03-03

vuiy saIu ''How do you do?' when we have
to add .Guod-by'' Yes, about the most
reluctant good by Of all; for this gracefu l
good-hearted and accomplished Western
woman capt:vated ali. She has tie st.
Louis manner Of hospitality, which is large
warm and hearty. There is refinement and
grace about it, but it has more than that
the air of being genuine. Mrs Francis is
Of medium height, and has blue eyes and
brown hair The Secretary and Mrs.
Francis have entertained lavishly during
the past social season, and their dinners
receptions and other social functions have
been most enjoyable. Six SONS constitute
their family Of interesting children, the
eldest of whom is twenty. OF these, two
are at Harvard, and<wo in preparatory
school at New Haven. The Secretary and
his family will return early in March TO
st. Louis, where Mrs Francis has long
reigned as a social queen.
Out in Q street there was an unpreten-
tious house, occupied by the interesting
family of the Postmaster General. Even
after he left the legislative halls for the
higher official and social position. no
great change was visible in the quiet man.
ner Of living in this well poised household
Mrs Wilson was not very robust in health.
and could not venture far into the official
whirl, but she managed to meet its posi-
tive demands to the satisfaction of all,
for she brought into it refined and cul-
tured woIrlaDhood, that was a fitting ac-
compartment for an intellectual postmas-
ter G eneral. There is a grown-up son, who
had no end OF fun once upon time soon
after Mr.. Wilson came into the Cabinet.
because some one applied to Mrs. Wilson
for the photograph of her little boy"
1t seems that Mrs. Wilson had a motherly
way OF speaking of this son as cher little
boy" as mothers like to do until those
big fellows take themselves off for good,
and, OF course, it was all her fault. Mr..
Wilson said his wife was the typical Irish
mother, and her boy would be a hoy in
her estimation until some other woman
carried him off.
Miss Wilson, the only daughter of the
house, came out last winter and had no
end OF good time. Sbeis more than sorry
to leave Washington. On one occasion last
winter her mother had invitations out for
a Cabinet luncheon party, but on the
morning OF the erentfui day she was I'M
able to rise from her bed on account of a
splitting headache, and there was no op-
portunity TO change the date. Miss Wilson,
a bud just blossomed into rosy debutante,
The evening times., 1897-03-03

erOus disposition, and has been much be-
loved by all the people OF this Administra-
ton. Among the warmest OF her friends i s
Mrs. Olney. Miss Morton has kept house
for her brother ever since the death OF his
wife some eighteen years ago. she will
return with the Secretary very soon after
the 4th Of March to their home. '-Arbor
Lodge" which is situated just outside of
Nebraska City. in Nebraska.
Mrs Lamont had a good deal Of social
experience when Mr.. Lam ont was private
secretary during ex-PTesident Cleveland's
first administration, so that she did not
come into the higher official rank unao-
quainted with it"
q : ~
The evening times., 1897-03-03

since Ms Harm. on entered the Catnet
crc,p sire h&s d o.oUGlly en- o5 od herself
A. ctu,iEnatian OF most refined SOFT,
has EiG Iothmg specially new 10 Team
o conventional customs here, where Sne
las o-5... Igen a y.sit,T LeiCle, when her
husband came 10 practice befoIe the Sn-
urpnta 4 oiat These dear Western women
i.a,ra way of taking life easily, and Mrs.
lFafu4o4las smatlc hOstsof friends. Friends
,vtil t-c very 10th TO part with her, although
tlrre is prospect that she may often
tt5t.n. as sitc used 20 C,ne with her ICs-
naiuG on E:S professional uiEs. The eld-
ct daughter. Mrs. Wright, wlo las spent
r,,,cb rsIl.c with the family ct tier ONE
ca X street, has a little gulden-haired
toy II two years. His name is EDWARD
ard lc Is Tie only eTandchnd Of tie AttoT-
ue.,- General and Mis-. Harmo on, who are, OF
,orrsc. very IruUd Of him. Miss EllZabeth
Usfuoa. tie second daughter, is very
IaUd,oafc. and strOngl resembles her
y Other IL face ana 1igme. The youngest
dauc3iter Mar -orie, is about fifteen. She
israIl. las liLht hair ard Osy q eeks, nd
proa.fses to develop INTO a very fine-icok-
iug h ou.an MI. HalmCn viii leave lmIne-
diatciv after tie iDaugul alton for Olncin-
uatt. where be win letLn 20 the practice
OF law. Mrs. Harmon and ter daughters
viii remain n Washington until Apiu,
when they VIII so TO some SeasGore resort,
returning in tie fan 10 their hcme IN Cln-
cinnati.
The evening times., 1897-03-03

our united peace and that the war OF
Rebellion was conquered" !"
The evening times., 1897-03-03

Airs Carlisle has had nearly every ex-
nericnce OF a Washington hostess, wife
nf Representative in Congress, Speaker,
senator. and Cabinet officer Mrs. Car
d i,le is a strong character she likes and
She doesn't. and If she does not, you are
apt to find il out in time. At least there
Is one lady whose husband once figured
as a diplomat, and she says that the wife
Of the Secretary OF the Treasury turned
her hack on her at a reception in tie White
House a couple of seasons since, thus doing
one OF the most daring things that any
hostess though with the Presidents
wife. one is assisting the hostess and should
act accordingly and in consequence a
certain ex-diplOmat came near ma 1t
a question tor the State u
settle To this dav
publicly ''"'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-29
stories of Dana.

A writer in the Baltimore Sun, telling
some stories of the late Charles A. Dana,
says: He is said to have been able to read
all the morning papers of New York in
fifteen minutes. There was whirl of pa
per in the air during the operation, as he
turned leaf after leaf, and ran his eyes
up and down the columns. He seemed to
see instinctively whatever each paper con-
tanned that was peculiar or noteworthy
whether 1t was a stickful or a column. A
new man at the City Desk of the Sun no.
ticed that Mr.. Dana sent for the papers
every morning and almost instantly re-
turned them. Wondering at this, he asked
the office boy what the chief did with the
papers. "Wen." said the boy, a typical
New York lad, II pile 'em on his desk and
he fires 'em on de floor, and then l CAD
der EN- up again and bring EN- back to
you"
He was as much quicker in speech and
decision as lightning is quicker than rain.
1t was difficult to talk with him on that
account-or, rather 1t was bew1ldering to
one who was not used to him. He seemed
to hear all you were going to say when
you were just beginning to say SC. Here is
an example: In order not to bother him
too often, one of his lieutenants used to
save up" things to see him about. On one
day only two matters occurred that called
for his counsel. The lieutenant decided to
go to the chief and say that there was a
man in the office who had tanned a piece
of human skin and made a pair of boots
of it, and did Mr.. Dana want an article
written about the matter? Also, that up
in ST. Johnsbury, Vt, a clergyman had
been arrested upon a criminal charge, and
there was to follow long and complicat-
ed story about that. The lieutenant went
into the chiefs room, and this is what was
said:
MIR. Dana, there's man at my desk
who has tanned human hide and made a
pair of boots"
Ugh said Mr.. Dana. "show him out
of the Office
YES SIR" said the lieutenant, land up
rested for"
go yourself. Take the o'clock train
| this evening. Anything more Mr.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-29

THAT reminds me-" remarked an old
pioneer, according to the San Francisco
Post, when Gen. Halleck's name was men
toned, "of the banquet we gave Halleck
In 1866, when he returned from the war.
The people here were proud of him, for
he had more than regained the laurels
he lost at Corinth, when he permitted the
enemy to escape under the cover of a big
battery of wooden guns that had been
made out of logs during the night
Among the friends of Halleck who met
him at the banquet was Billy Water
man. the old sea captain who in early
days commanded a clipper ship plying be-
tween San Francisco and New York. On
one voyage he had laid a big wager to
beat a rival clipper, but when he found
on going to set that some of his crew
who had shipped as able-bodied seamen
were incompetent he was so mad that he
hanged three to the yard. Just how they
were hanged was never known, but Wa
terman was tried for murder and acquit-
ted
During one of those silences that fall
over the merriest of banquets, Gen. Hal
leck called to Waterman, who was at the
other end of the room:
Now, that you have been tried and ac-
quilted Waterman, won't you tell us how
many men you hanged on that voyage%
" Yes, general. 1 WILL responded Wa
terman, if you will first tell us how many
wooden guns stopped you at Corinth.'
The subject dropped there"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-29
Dtna..c,.s Tariff on Elephants.

Mr.. Dingley's tariff law Is distinctly sta
ted to be for the purpose Of protecting
American industries, and for other pur-
poses In the body Of that law ii Is writ
ten that wild animals imported into this
country. except such as may
have been born on American
soil, taken abroad. and returned
to the land of their nativity. shall be tax
ed % per centum ad valorem. II viii prob
ably not be argued that the government re-
lied upon this provision as a revenue rails
er. The inference, therefore, is that it was
purely protective legislation. for the benefit
of the native American elephant, lion and
hippopotamus industries.
Mr.. Bailey proposes TO take the great
Barnum circus to Europe for a season. He
mas In the show a very large number Of
foreign born animals which acquired cit
lzenship so to speak, before the Dingley
law was passed; nevertheless when these
Citizens" naturalized by custom and
length of residence, have once left for a
foreign tour, their rights are to be re-
voked, and they may not re-enter here
without contribution TO the national ex-
chequer amounting to one-hfth of their
value to their owners.
II transpires that there are in Mr.. Bal
ley's show two infantile elephants that
were born in this country. In captivity.
Their parents, however, first saw the light
in the tungles of Africa. The native
American elephants, thanks to their good
fortune of birth under the stars and
stripes, will be permitted to come home
free. But their respected parents will be
barred out. unless they come down hand
somely with the cash. Now, in Mr. Ding
ley's own state some forty years ago there
was a great hue and cry against a law
and custom by which cash considerations
often stood between parents and offspring
Most exquisite invective and moving
pathos were directed against the system
which separated child from its mother
unless the owner of the mother became
also the purchaser of the child. Yet We
now perceive Mr.. Dingley and his
partisans enacting a law which will have
precisely the same effect. Unless Mr.. Bal
ley antes up big pile Of money, the dear
little baby elephants will be snatched
ruthlessly from the fond mother elephants
arms, and the mother will be left with no
where to go but off And the same thing
is true in the case of the patriotic hippot-
ami, who, imagining from their long resi-
dence in this country that they had be-
come full fedged Americans with all of
the rights and perquisites enjoyed by the
native born, celebrated by presenting
the country with bright and smiling little
reproductions of themselves.
Secretary Gage, of the treasury depart
ment, has taken the matter of Mr.. Ding
leys elephant tariff under consideration.
If he can find any way in the world by
which the separating of the foreign born
mother elephants and their American off,
spring can be avoided without working an
injury to the native American elephant
industry, the secretary will see that 1t is
done. AS matter of fact, many of the
republicans are beginning to see that Mr..
Dingley's tariff bill, from first to last, Is
something of white elephant itself.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-29
A Case of Histrionics.

l was tramping along a mountain road
in the Allegheny region, with my tourist
pack on my back and a stout stick in my
hand, when I espied a cabin In a clearing
a few rods ahead says a writer in the De-
troit Free Press.
Just before I reached it a terrible clam
or and uproar arose within its walls, some
thing like the sound made by a colcky
horse trying to kick the stable down. and
presently the door flew open and a wild
eyed and hatess man dashed forth in
company with a frying pan, poker, fire
shovel and several sticks of stove wood,
and scoOting, energetieally across the yard
flung himself onto the fence ahead of me
and fairly fell over it into the road, where
he crOuched In a demoralized heap, trem-
bling and gasping for breath.
you had a pretty close call that time.
somebody been trying TO murder your"
said I, as L came up and paused in front
of him.
''Y-yes-I mean no. he stammered; sit
is only Lady Macbeth on one of her tan
trums"
Lady Macbeth"
Excuse me. mister, I mean my wife.
My name is 81 Sniffles and hern is Han
ner Sniffles, but she got hold of a book
called 'Shakespeare's Works a spell ago,
and sence that she's bin Rosalind part of
the time an part of the time Lady Mac
beth. When she is Rosalind, l kin set
around the house an smoke my pipe an
take things easy, an she is as good as pie
TO me; but when she's Lady Macbeth I've
got TO stir my stumps an look out fer
myself
THE worst of it Is, mister. she changes
from one character to t'other so suddenly
sometimes that she sort of takes me I'M
awares, same as she di jest now. Didn't
even have a chance to get my hat this
time, an / don't know how long 1 will
halter stay out here without it,"
Perhaps she will take pity on you and
hand it 10 you if you go and ask her for
it"
"P'rps she will an praps she'll give me
somethin' else 1 don't want near as bad
as I do that hat. 1 hain't gointer run
no chances on it, anyway. but jest hang
around here an lay low until 1 hear her
hummin' some love song, an then I'll
know she is Rosalind ag'in an 1t will be
safe to go in.
Got to go now, have We? Wall, SO
long mister, an if We hear of anything in
the patent medicine line thatd be apt to
reach Hammers case I'll be mighty obleeg-
ed to we if yen send me dozen bottles
or so jest to try it,"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-29
RotfOua Rails.

A curious state of affairs can be seen
at one of the new buildings now being
erected in the southern part of the city
For the time being it is the bottom rail
on top" without a doubt. At the place
mentioned a number of white boys are
employed at carpentering, painting and
other work under negro employers. In
reply to the inquiry why he didn't employ
colored boys instead of white boys, one OF
the negro workmen said that colored boys
wouldn't work; they had to go to school
and want to be preachers and lawyers, OF
base ball players. Their mothers and faith
ers work to feed and clothe them because
gers
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-29
LEGAL NOTICES.


GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY -
Notice is hereby given that have maze
application to the court of ordinary for
Chatham county, for leave TO sell that lot
of land, No. 3, being a subdivision of lot
No. g. Middle Oglethorpe ward, in the city
of Savannah, having a front on Bryan
street of twenty-six (26) feet and six 30
inches, and running south one hundred
and thirty Q30 feet, more or less the
eastern half of lot of land letter I'd" Md
die Oglethorpe ward, in said city, contain
ing forty-three (43) feet and two (2) inch
es, more or less, on Pine street, and run
ming back ninety-tWo (920 feet more or
half of lot of land number seven % North
Oglethorpe ward, in said city, fronting
twenty-nine 900 feet and eight (9 inches,
more or less on Indian street. and having
a depth of forty (4O feet, more or less;
those .ots of land in Chatham county,
numbers six 90 and seven q in @. J.
HulPs subdivision of section two (2 of the
appraisers subdivision of the estate Of
Darlington King; that lot of land in said
county, number five 90 in said Hulls sub
division of said section two 81 fronting
twenty-five (25) feet, more or less, on the
White Bluff road, and having a depth of
one hundred 200 feet to an alley; that
portion of section one % of the subdivision
of a portion of the estate of Darlington
King in said county, being the southeast
corner of said section fronting fifty go
feet on the east on the Vernon Shell road.
and having depth westward of one hun
dred and twenty Q2O) feet along the north
side of street forty-eight (48 feet wide.
together with the improvements on all of
said tracts or lots of land. and two CO
shares of the capital stock of the Chatham
Dime Savings Bank NOW known as the
Chatham Bank Of the par value of fifty
$50 dollars each, belonging to estate OF
Catherine Cosgrove, deceased, for the pay
ment of debts and distribution, and that
! said order will be granted at November
term, 1897 of said court. to-wit: on the
! 9Th day of November. 1897, unless objec-
lions are filed. JAMES INQUIRE.
Administrator Estate of Catherine Cos
| grove. deceased.
Oct. T. 1897.
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lIr. Croker and Mr. PIntt.

The leaders of the Low and George fac
tons in the Greater New York contest are
beginning to say that as Mr. Platt and
MIR. Croker represent the political organ
izations which cast the highest and the
next highest number Of votes at the last
election. these two bosses will have con-
troll of the ballot boxes, practically, next
Tuesday, and that it would be the part of
wisdom to keep a watchful eye on them
1t is pointed out that Mr.. Croker is max
ing harder fight against Mr.. Low, the
Citizens Union candidate, than against
Gen Tracy, the republican candidate and
It is certain that Mr.. Plat is doing his ut
most to defeat Mr.. Low. If the reports in
the New York papers are to be credited,
Mr.. Plat would rather see Judge Van
Wyck, the Tammany candidate. success
full than Mr.. Low, and Mr.. Croker pre-
fers Gen. Tracy to Mr.. Low. Under the
circumstances it is not at all surprising
that the friends of Mr.. George and Mr..
Low are talking about the probability of
being counted out.
1t is quite safe to say there is no good
ground for their fears. With election Of
fcers drawn from the democratic and re-
publican parties in charge of the ballot
boxes there win be no chance for ballot
box frauds. The democratic and republi-
| cans in charge of the polls couldn't avoid
trouble if frauds were attempted. There
is no doubt therefore that the count will
be an honest one. Neither Mr. Low noI
Mr.. George need to worry himself ovei
that feature of the election.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-29

With regard to the arrival of Mr.. Bry-
an in Ohio to take part in the campaign
the Geographic dispatches say that "he is
er place that "he is less an attraction than
when he was a presidential candidate"
There is nothing strange about either OF
these statements. His travelling in a pri-
vate car is one effect of his recent presi-
dental campaign; he can afford it. And
his loss Of attractiveness is possibly due
to the fact that he travels in a private
car
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Too Much Money.

There is more money in the country
than there is a demand for. Every few
days there IS a report that a bank mas
gone out OF business. or has consolidated
with some other bank in order 10 reduce
expenses. Only a few days ago it was
announced that the New York banks
were thinking seriously Of reducing inter
est on the deposits Of out-of-town banks
TO 1Iz per cent. The rate they now pay
is , per cent Those banks have so much
money on hand that they cannot afford
to pay the interest they are at present
paying on deposits.
In our dispatches yesterday It was an
nounced that the First National Bank of
New Albany, Ind. had decided to go out
Of business. It had been a ffourishlng and
profitable institution for thirty-fve years.
but within the last year it could not find
any way in which to employ its capital
and deposits probably. Rather than con
tiuue in business and do nothing for its
stockholders, It decided TO wind up its az
fairs.
It would be an easy matter to name
other banks which have gone out of bust
ness within the last few months. The
simple truth is that there is more money
seeking employment than is needed to DO
the business Of the country. In New York
the rate of interest, where good security
is offered, is remarkably low. 1t may be
that in portions of the west and south,
away from the towns, the rate Of interest
is high, but that is because the security.
which those who want TO borrow have to
offer, isn't of a desirable kind. If the
farmers of the west and south had the
kind of security which is accepted by the
banks in the large towns they would have
no difficulty in borrowing money at
much less rate of interest than they now
pay.
Those politicians who are trying to
make the people believe that greater pros,
perity would come with a great increase
in the volume of the currency are either
demagogues or ignorant of the subject
about which they attempt to enlighten the
people. During some of the most pros
porous years the country has had since
the close of the war Of secession the per
capita circulation was much less than it
is at present. 1t cannot be held by any
fair-minded man that there is need of an
increase in the volume of the currency
when banks in different parts of the coun-
try are either going out of business or
are cutting down expenses by consolida-
ton or reduction of capital.
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Why He Wouldn't BE SEARCHED.

Prof. Max Muller, according to the New
York Tribune. tells a story of what once
happened in the coin rooms Of the British
museum, where, during a visit of num-
Der of gentlemen and ladies, 1t was OBJ
served that a very valuable and almost
unique Sicllian coin had disappeared. All
the gentlemen present in the room at the
time had to be searched, and no one OBJ
jected except one He protested his in
nocence, but declared that nothing would
induce him to allow his pockets to be
searched. All the other visitors were al
lowed to go home, but he was detained
while the coin room was swept and every
corner searched once more. At last the
missing coin was found in a chink of the
floor. Every apology was made to the
suspected person, but he was asked why
he had so strongly objected to being
searched. He then produced from his
pocket another specimen of the very same
coin. Il came here" he said, to com
pare my specimen, which is very perfect,
with the only other specimen which is
thought to be superior to mine, and al
most unique in the world. Now suppose. :"
he added, that you had not found your
coin, and had found my specimen in my
pocket, would anybody have believed in
my innocence?'