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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01
WAITING FOR SANTA CLAUS"
A Merry Entertainment by sunday
school Children.

A large audience witnessed the entertain
ment given by the children of the Sunday
school of the First Presbyterian church
last night at Masonic hall. The cantata,
waiting for Santa Claus was presented.
The process OF waiting was literally in
terspersed with songs by the school. a
quartet and sextette of grown voices and
a solo by talented lady singer.
The characters taking part in the play
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01
STATISTICS OF THE PORT.
December Arrivals and Tonnage.
The Vessels and Their Rigs.

The Vessels and Their Rigs.
Inc Morning News gives to-day the to-
tai number of vessels arriving at this port
during the last month, with the rigs, ma
tionality and net tonnage. The number
does not include the arrival at quarantine
or Tybee, but only those vessels which
have arrived at the wharves and has dis
charged cargo, or in ballast and loading.
1t does not include river or inland coast
steamers, nor does # include vessels I'M
der 100 tons. The arrivals. with their rig
and nationality, are as follows:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01

Asheville. N. c.. Dec 31.-Last night
Miss Nellie Porter Of Baltimore, who has
been in Asheville for several months, took
an overdose of strychniue while laboring
under melancholia and died two hours
later.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01

1896.
White. Col'rdI white. COR a

There should be lots of announcement
in the foregoing table to many who may
peruse 1t, even though 1897 is not a leap
year.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01
NoRFOLK's COTTON RECEIPTS.
An Increase of Over 300 Per Cent. IN
the Past Four Months

Norfolk, Va, Dec. S1.-For the four
months ending to-day there were received
at this port 56l054 bales of cotton. The
amount received in the corresponding pc
riod last year was 1882. This represents
an increase of over 300 per cent, and prob
ably makes Norfolk the greatest cotton
port in the world
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01

Chester A. Arthur, son Of the late ex-
President is said 70 be a candidate for a
diplomatic appointment under the new adj
ministration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01
IN THE RAILROAD WORLD.
Matters of Interest in Savannah and
Elsewhere.

EAHGWneFes
Mr. ]. F. Duggan, who has been for a
time a stenographer in the passenger de-
partment of the Plant system. will leave
to-day for Jacksonville to begin his du-
ties as clerk to the United States board
of steamboat inspectors of that district.
Mr.. Duggan stood a highly creditable civil
service examination some time ago, and
he enters the service under splendid aus
pieces. Besides his associates in the sys-
TENS employ, Mr Duggan has many
friends in the city who will regret to learn
of his departure.
Mr.. ]. $. Cooper. collector for the Cen
trail, left last night for Atlanta.
Mr.. W. A. Wfnburn general freight
agent of the Central, returned yesterday
from the meeting of the commission held
in Atlanta for a re-hearing of the ferti-
lizer rates question.
Mr. c. II. Carson. chief clerk to the
purchasing agent Of the Central left last
night on a trip to Atlanta.
Mr.. j. NJ. Egan, vice president Of the
Central returned yesterday from Atlanta,
where he represented his road in the fer
tilizer rates hearing before the commits
sion.
Mr.. F. B. Papy. general freight agent of
the Plant system. returned yesterday
from Atlanta.
Capt. j. W. Fitzgerald, superintendent
of the Plant steamship line, and Mr.. r.
g. Erwin. vice president Of the Plant sys-
TEN, left yesterday afternoon for Tampa
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01

santa CiauS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS santa OlauS
The play, presented by a cast composed
so largely of children, was very bright
and interesting. The story showed Mag
gle, a little girl poorly clad, standing out
in quest of the First Presbyterian Sunday
school, of which she was DESTROYS of be-
coming a member She lost her way, but
met with kind friend in Mr.. JOY, who
accompanies her to the school and intro
duced her. A warm welcome was given
her, and she was at once made to feel
herself at home and became an object of
interest to the other children.
The Christmas festival was announced
to the school by the superintendent, Mr.
Goodheart, and letter from Santa Claus
was read. in which he promised to be
present He was detained by an accident,
but telegraphed the school to await his
arrival. The old gentleman's detention
caused great uneasiness and Impotence,
but Mr.. Quick kindly furnished very
speedy entertainment for the little ones
pending his arrival.
Santa Claus arrived at last. to the de-
light of the children. Little Maggie was
made happy on receiving a dress, cloak,
shoes and other articles of apparel as
presents from number of the scholars,
in whom it was desired to inculcate
spirit of true charity and Christian SYM
pathy for the poor and needy.
Upon the departure of Santa Claus pres
ents were distributed to all the children.
The entertainment was given under the
direction of Mrs. w A. Bishop.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01
--------s-~s-o----
BIkERS ARE STILL BUNCHED.

Leaders i'm the Race Less Than Four
Miles Ahead of the Tail Ender.
Washington, Dec. 31.-At the close of
the fourth day of the six days internal
tional bicycle race the score stood:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01

Mr.. ]. s. Cooper, collector for the Cen
| trail, left last night for Atlanta.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22

This is one on District ATTORNEY Back
us of Kings county. He tells it himself.
II went to Poughkeepsie once with an
other lawyer and a detective in plain
clothes, who was escorting a prisoner
who was to be resentenced there. The
prisoner was shackled to the detective.
They sat in the seat ahead of that occu-
pied by the other lawyer and myself.
1.-THE train stopped 10 minutes at
Eoughkepesie for lunch, and in order
not to expose the manacled prisoner to a
curious crowd I suggested that we sit
in the car for a few minutes after the
train was stopped, allow the passengers
to alight and go to the lunchroom and
then go quietly to a carriage, which
awaited us. The others agreed, and we
sat still.
"A nervous passenger who had rid
den in the same car with us from New
York and who did not know that one of
us was a condemned criminal, wished
to get out for lunch and thought it adj
visable to ask some one to keep an eye
on his hand baggage in his absence.
HE hesitated until he saw only four
of is left. Then he approached and
looked keenly at each of us in turn.
After a close scrutiny of our counte-
nances he leaned over, tapped the pris-
oner on the shoulder and said:
Will you be good enough, sir, to
Keep al eye on my baggage while I get
q bite to eat?' New York Herald.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22
Removing a Candidate.

! was sitting in the barroom of the
tavern at the western end of the stage
route, when a native of the town came
in, and in that free, offhand way so
characteristic of the far west asked
me to have a nip with him. After the
nip we fell into conversation, and I
learned that a new county had just been
established and that they were soon to
hold an election of officers. I asked him
if there was much interest manifested,
and he replied:
"The tallest kind of interest, stranger.
Dye see this bullet hole in my hat? One
Of Jim fairbanks crowd put it thar"
"And who is Jim fairbanks, may I
ask?''
Hes the candidate ON the other tick
ct fur sheriff. Good man, Jim is, but
he'll never git thar"
"And who is your candidate?" I ask
ed.
He's right yere, stranger" he re-
Piled as he tapped himself on the breast.
"Yes, I'm at the head of u ticket, and
the boys ar goin to see me through"
"But what about this shootiIg?"
IN, II s f1gnG NUM- You see, me
end Jim ar the two best men in the
county, and the boys ar sorter divided
between us. If I'm out of the way,
Jim's sure to be 'lected. If he's out of
the way, I shall go in with a whoop.
He sent over to ak me if I'd withdraw,
and when I said Iwouldn't he sot out
To remove me-
ITO remove you by shooting your"
"Eggsactly. That's all right and ac-
cordin to Hoyle, l believe. Jim's a pur-
ty good shot, but he was a leetle shaky
when he fired at me today, and the bull
let never touched a ha'r."
"And you don't want Jim to resignY'
I queried.
"But I do" he answered. "Yes; I
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22
THEIR GLORY DEPARTED.

Greece Of today is not the Greece
of a thousand years ago. The glory
of Leonidas has waned, and the deeds
of old Miltiades exist only in story
and song. The modern Maid of
Athens is a brainless beauty. Mara
thon and Thermopyle suggest moth
ing of their valorous historic splend-
or. And the plains of Pharsalos,
where Caesars legions established
the Roman empire, are no longer
marked by the footprints of heroes.
In the Greek, the patriotic fire has
ceased to burn, and the proud de-
scendants of gods and demigods have
evolved into a band of sheep.
One thousand years ago, let a war
such as this take place, and all Eur
ope would be m~arshalled to repel the
rapacious Turk. 1t is a war of Mo-
hammedan against Christian, and by
the blood of martyrs for Christ has
Christianity been written in the laws
of Europe.
How different today! We see
Christian nations siding with the
Mussulman. We see the children of
lsrael's God helping the crowd that
has the most guns. Mohamedanism
was once driven from Europe by the
very nations which now conspire to
promulgate it's lecherous edicts. The
end of the Greco-Turkish incident
means the slaughter of more Armen-
ians, and the outrage and enslave-
ment of thousands more of defense
less women and girls.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22

SHOOK HIS FIST AT THE CAR.
you know what I think of you? I've
met some blamed mean men in my
time, but-there you go again"
"I-I can't help it-ha, ha, ha! 7 al
most went into commissions over it. You
see, you started to fly, your back bumped
up, and-ho, no, hor'
"Ladies and gentlemen" said the old
man as he stood up and pointed his fin
ger, ''look at that %critter. May heaven
help his wife and children! Say, come
to look at him closer, Til bet he's the
wretch who went 'Hu, hu, hu!' when I
got off this street car IL day last week
and fell all over the road"
eyes, I'm the manila, ha, hai'' ex-
claimed the other. II was ON the plat
form and you dropped off, and, being
stiff in the knees, you took a tumble. l
didn't laugh quite as hard as before,
but-but--ha, ha, ha! I've had more
fun out of you than a barrel of monkeys,
and I shall be glad to-ho, no, ho!''
"Sir, do you mean to insult me over
and owe again."
"No, sir; but it was so funny-so
funny--ha, ha, hal"
Conductor, said the old man as the
door was opened, will you pitt that crit
ter off the carr"
"I've no right to, SIR" answered the
official.
"Then, sir, then ladies and gentlemen
and that oritter sittin there with a red
face, my sense of humor compels me to
Withdraw from such society, and I CO."
He went, and the man who laughed
followed him out on the platform. The
conductor started to ring the bell, but
the old man waved his hand and stepped
off and went sprawling in the mud, and
as he struggled to his feet and shook his
fist at the car the ''critter" waved his
hand in return and laughed: "Ha, ha!
Ho, no, no! HUI, hu, hui"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22

sent a man to him an hour ago to ak
him to git off the ticket, and he sent me
back word that he'd see me hanged fust.
Purity good man, Jim is, but sorter sot
about some things"
"But will you be elected all the
same?"
"Waal, l can't say as to that. I'm go
in to try to remove Jim tomorrer. IF I
succeed, then I'll hev a walkover."
"Do you mean by shooting?''
eur surel Yes, I shall try to shoot
him off the ticket. Mebbe l shall do it
and mebbe he'll shoot me off. Can't tell
about that yit, and if I was you I
wouldn't make any bets about it,"
Three weeks later and 100 miles
away I met a man from Golden City
and asked him how the election went.
"Oh, Jim fairbanks was 'lected all
right!' he replied.
"Then he beat the candidate on the
other ticket?".
"Had to beat him, sab, cause the
candidate on the other ticket had bin
dead fur three days, and nobody wanted
to vote for a dead man." M. QUAD.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22

John Ernst of Boise shoots himself
because his wife would not live with
him.
Geo. Webster is held in Cheney,
Wash, for the murder of Mrs. APPS
land.
A monument unveiled at Phila-
delphia to the memory of Geo. WASH
ington.
Greece accepts the mediation Of
the powers to settle her dispute with
Turkey.
Normand, the double murderer and
ravisher of Towner, N. d., has sur
rendered.
Brake Brown on the N. P. killed
at Plains, Mont, trying to make a
coupling.
j. j. Hill gets hold of the Duluth
& Winnipeg Ry. on a foreclosure of
mortgage.
Steamer Collynie goes down in a
collision at Aberdeen, Scotland, and
II lives lost.
Sunday %streetcars are running in
Toronto for the first time in the his
tory of the city.
Mrs. Minnie Johnson, Great Falls,
sues her Herman for divorce, alleg-
ing cruelty and wilful neglect.
In Russia, II religious enthusiasts
are walled up IN order that they may
receive the martyrs crown. They
croak.
John Bloor, enrolling clerk Of the
state senate gets a year at Deer
Lodge for monkeying with the band
wagon.
Sylvanite, a gold camp in the Yakt
district, Montana, has grown in a
year from a single log cabin to a pop
ulation of 300.
Gilt Edge is on a boom, and the
mines under the management of L.
S. Woodbury. are turning out 100
tons of ore daily.
Tom Redmond, once a millionaire
race hore fiend is sent to the pen from
Chicago for life. He was the most
accomplished stiffener of race horses
in the world.
John Thomas, a boy running the
compressed air hosting engine in
the Tamarack mine, Houghton, Mich,
discovers a box on fire in which
were stored seven boxes of dynamite.
He gave the alarm of fire, coolly
stood at his post, hoisted all his men
and escaped with them to places of
safety. Ten seconds later the pow
der exploded, wrecking the building.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22
SOME NEWS NOTES.
Caught Hot rom Our Private Wire
and Seaso ed to Suit the Fastidi-
Gus Public Taste.

Caught Hot rom Our Private Wire
and Seaso ed to Suit the Fastidi-
GUS Public Taste.
The Danish cabinet has resigned.
Durrant has hopes of executive
clemency.
Streams in the Ceur d. Alenes are
booming.
Montana press gang meets at Hell
ena, June p.
Rich silver mines discovered near
Monclova, Mex.
Brakeman Kimble run over and
killed at Missoula.
An earthquake or two make things
lively in Australia.
Printing house in Quincy, ILL.,,
burns for $4,000.
Turkey awards gold and silver
medals to her troops
France and Morocco will scrap
over African territory.
King George of Greece will go
out of the ruling business.
The courts have decided that
Moores is mayor of Omaha.
Great Falls is talking up a $1,000
fourth of July demonstration.
Massachusetts receives from Eng
and the log of the Mayflower.
Irish beauties to the number of
800 are unloaded at Castle Garden.
wo negresses lynched near
huntsville II Ala, for poisoning a fam
lily.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22
SKETCHES BY NJ. QUAD
The Man Who Fell,

There was an old man sitting in the
corner of the street car, reading his pa
per, and he would have paid nc atten-
ton to his fellow passengers had not the
man opposite him happened to touch his
foot.
"Who you kickin?'' demanded the old
man as he lowered his paper and glared
ut the other.
II beg pardon for touching your
foot"
mighty funny that 1 can't sit in a
street car without bein kickedi'
Nobody kicked you, sirt'
"Yes, they did. I guess I know when
I'm Kicked What you laughin at?''
"Please excuse me, will your an
swered the other.
mo, won't excuse you! Nobody can
kick me and then laugh about it'll Say,
you are the man who went 'Ha, ha, ha!'
when I fell down last winterl Yes, you
are the very man. I was walkin along
and struck al icy spot and'-
"And your feet went out from under
you, and you came down kershung. Ha,
ha, hal"
"Are you laughin about that YETI"
eyes; can't help it. Ha, ha, ha!
Your feet went up, you clawed the air,
you uttered a warwhoop and-ha, ha,
hal''
Look here!'' said the old man as he
bristled up. "a man who will laugh
because another man fell down is nothin
but a critter. I'll bet you are the man
who laughed 'Ho, no, ho!' when l struck
a banana peel II day last summer and
was laid up for a week. Don't deny it,
sir! I remember your voicel'
"Yes, I'm the man. I was right be-
hind you. You gave a sort of jump,
your hat fell off and when you struck
ha, ha, hal'
"And it tickled you most to death to
see me half kill myself, did it? Say, do
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22
THE SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVY,

The trustees of Neihart school dis
trict (No. 35) have addressed the
HERALD a communication, signed by
j. L. Neihart, president, which we
regret we had not time this week to
publish. The Article reviews the
financial condition of the district,
and shows by figures that it will be
necessary to raise $2,75S.5O by spec
ial levy in order to continue the
schools upon their present basis of
operation. The items of expense
have all been previously published
in the HERALD, and we will not pre-
sent them now. 1t is enough to
know that we are 50, 700 behind the
game, and that so much additional
money will be needed.
When public ENTERPRISE is called
into action, no town in the United
States of America can lay over Mel
hart. When our public institutions
are assailed, our people are in the
front ranks offering their support fl
nancially, morally, and physically if
need be. We are not of the numb
er of those who trail in the rear of
the procession, but rather lead the
advance guard of civilization. The
proof of this will be demonstrated
this afternoon when the enterprising
people OF a thoroughly lively town
walk up and vote for the special
levy for school purposes.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22

obuSI HILL Vi
NEARLY sHRiEKED. tropical souls
and fervid tongues, had permitted his
tongue to get his soul tangled all up in
the golden meshes of a pretty girls
smiles, and that was the end of him. .
In pursuance of the usual custom
made and provided for in such emer-
g%encies, he went to see the girls father
about it, a very sensible old gentleman
who knows the value of advertising,
and also the value of the right kind of a
son-in-law.
"Yes, yes" the father said in re-
Spouse to the young mans opening adj
dress, Il know all about that folderol
part. What / want to know about is
business, and can you support my daugh-
ter? What do you do?''
Il write poetry, sir, " responded the
emotional applicant, with confidence.
The father fairly gasped.
write poetry?" he nearly shrieked.
write poetry? What in thunder can
you do at that to support a family, I'd
like to know?'
The young man Strengthened up so
suddenly that the old man jumped out
of the way. +
"Sir," said the applicant, with the
dignity of four kings, II don't write
the kind of poetry you are thinking
about. write poetry advertisements for
soap and patent medicine and beer and
bicycles and the kind hat pays. See?''
"Oh, ohP' spluttered the father,
Really. / beg your pardon, my dear
fellow. l didn't understand at all, l as
sure you. Take her, my boy, take her,
and joy go with you!"
The wedding will occur in the au-
tumn. -Washington Star.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22

Hayward, Holmes and Gay have
all received their sentence, and gone
to their reward. Their crimes were
committed near the time of the MUIR
ders of Blanche Lamont and Minnie
Williams. And yet the heavy vii
lain of this last tragedy is still hope
full of reprieve. Where does Durrant
get his pull?
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22
Different.

Little Pierre, a French boy, went
out to walk with his father in the
road and was badly frightened by a
drove of cattle.
"Why should you be afraid,
Pierre9" his father asked. why,
you eat such creatures as that at
dinner, you know"
Eyes, papa" said Pierre, "but
these aren't well enough done
London Fun.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22
LOG OF THE MAYFLOwER.

All the old patriotic s%cions, the
thoroughbred Plymouth Rock stock
of America are excited over the re-
covery by the Bay state of the log
or journal of the celebrated May
flower, which sailed several years ago
between Southampton, England, and
Boston, Mass. The Mayfower had
a monopoly of the bean trade, plying
between those cities, importing ped
igreed Americans and returning to
merry England with a cargo of baked
beans. This is the first great mono
poly that ever set foot on American
soil, and the press of that day assures
us that it was useless for any other
ship company to try to cut in, be-
cause there was but a limited num-
Der of blooded Americans to trans
port, and the Bradfords and Brew
sters and BOOSTERS would patronize
no other line.
The log of the Mayfower is the
finest in the world. 1t differs from
the bull-pine of this country, altho'
it is just as full of knots. After long
exposure, having been taken from
the bark 277 years ago, it is remark
ably well preserved.
1t is written i'll the coarse hand of
VIM. Bradford, an %autocrat of the
times, and contains a journal of hap
penings in the new land for a period
of 70 years after the first landing.
A careful scrutiny of it's pages ena-
bles the skillful antiquarian to deci-
pher most of its incidents. 1t tells
of a certain Miss Priscilla, a profess
sional bean baker, who afterward
opened up the biggest Dean foundry
in America; she shipped on the first
voyage, and took a great many priz-
es as the most popular young lady
in town. 1t seems that a slight alter
cation arose between one, John Car
yer, and Edward Winslow, who was
then coming to America to introduce
Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup, of
which "a bottles was warranted to
effect a thorough cure. Carver went
at Winslow with a spindle off Miss
Priscilla's wheel, and the whole GUAR
ter deck ran blue with the blood of
the Winslows. The latter took sec
ond money, besides a one third "a
interest in all receipts from the kim
etoscope.
These and many other incidents
make the log quite valuable to the
bean-eating public, but space forbids
a detailed publication. Several pag-
es of the log are written in meter.
These are called logarithms.
Let Massachusetts take her log.
and let historical societies resolve till
time joins eternity, there are still no
better Americans than the sturdy
yeomen of the center, south and west
who produce the wealth of the ma
ton, till her fields and fight her bat
tles,-whose ancestors might have
come over as stokers, or as steeraUe
in a third-rate vessel. The prattle
of the Bayards, and the other believ-
ers in hereditary greatness bears a
royalistlc smell, not Indigenous
to America. In this country zone
man is as good as another, and a lit.
tie bit BETTER" and it matters not
whether he ever had parents.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22
Two Phases.

"Who is that sprightly girl over
there?''
"That's Miss Binks, who took part in
the amateur theatricals last night"
And who are those 10 tired looking
women near her?'
"Those arc her mother, sister, aunts
and cousins who helped her get ready"
Chicago Record.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-22

tion, and it
means q man
who writes adj
vertise m g nts
(ads. } as they
should be writ
ten and not in
the old style of
saying much and
meaning moth
ing.
This story has
to deal with a
rising young adj
smith of this
town of Wash
ington, who, like
other fnan of