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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-23
Mind 20 Their Peril.
From the New YORK Tlmes nen

Except In Washington. there is a gen.
eral awakening to the blunders and the
perils Of the administration and the re-
publican party. The President and con-
gress are living In a fools paradise. Pro-
lection Is dead, and they have not found
Il out. The question of our money Is por-
tentously alive and that they do not see
What further warnings and alarms will Il
take to put understanding into their
minds?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-23

Marquis Ito, Japan's former premier.
who has just arrived in America on his
way to the queens jubilee, says Japan does
not want the Hawaiian islands. SO said
several OF the japanese delegates to the in
teFnational postal congress. We believe
Il was Aesop who wrote little story on
this line several thousand years ago. when
the grapes hung just a bit too high for
the fox 70 reach them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-23

The owner OF the famous nubusterlng
steamer Laurada, Capt. John d. Hart.
who was convicted Of violating the neu-
tralIty laws, has rendered the I.aurada to
the government for the purpose OF sending
supplies to the suffering Americans In
Cuba. This looks like another affront to
Spain. sufficient to cause war talk in
Madrid.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-23

Oscar Wilde. who has Just been released
from an English Jail. has declined an offer
OF 5000 TO write tho story OF his prison
life for one or the New York yellow four
nails. This may be taken as one evidence
at least that he has not suffered severe
mental deterloration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-23
why Not Raise More berries.

New York is now receiving strawber.
ries from Charleston, Norfolk and other
Virginia points, and New Jersey. The best
berries are said to be shipped from
Charleston. Yesterday one wholesale
dealer in this city sold 1000 quarts of
Charleston berries as rapidly as he could
take the orders.
1t appears strange to those who look
at things from a practical point of view
that Savannah should not be supplying
her own market with all the berries It
could consume. and not looking TO other
places for home product This is not
the only year in which this sort of thing
has occurred. 1t should not be the case
any year Chatham county has every
variety of SOIL and the climate is adapted
to the cultivation of strawberries. It is
said that our farmers find 1t more profta-
BILE to raise vegetables; but certainly with
the thousands Of acres OF uHcultivated
land In the county, and the number OF
people who want work, strawberries at
even cents a quart would be a crop
which would supply a living. There Is an
opening for a number of enterprislng
farmers and truckers in this county.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-23
Their Hone Renewed.
From the Detroit Free Press Dom.

When they reflect that the Senate COM
mittee has made a clean $is.OOo.OOo for the
sugar trust by revising the sugar schedule
the representatives OF the lumber ana
wool interests OF this state return to the
charge at Washington with reduobled en-
prrN
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-23

When Admiral Brown retires from the
navy, In few weeks, he will become a
resident of Indianapolis. THAT is my old
home" he says, and one of the loveliest
places in the world. My wifes friends
and my friends are there-from which you
must not infer that we haven't friends
everywhere You can sail around the
world all your life but you never form
friendships and attachments like those
that are made in the early days, when
the heart is young. Besides. I'll be the
only admiral in Indianapolis; whereas, If
settle in Washington, I'd be one of forty.
When man goes into the club at In
dianapolis and inquiries if any one has
seen the admiral. they will know that he
means Brown: but when such a question
is asked in Washington, forty old coveS
will rush up and answer. I'm here"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-23
Personal.

The birth of a daughter to the Duke
and Duchess of York makes the number of
Queen Victorias living descendants sew,
enty. There are seven living sons and
daughters, thirty-three grandchildren and
thirty great-grandchildren.
Francis H. Pierpont. who was gov
ernor of Virginia during the war, and who
is called the Father of West Virginia.
is living at his home, in Paramount, Mar
ion county, West Virginia. He is 50 yeas
old, and, though he is feeble, his health Is
good and his mind is clear.
The Boston Transcript says: IAN in
teresting delegate to the postal congress
is the postmaster general Of Egypt. He
calls himself a Syrian Catholic, and was
pleased to find in New York city church
Of his own faith. and that the service
was conducted in Arabic, the language his
mother had taught him. He says, how
ever, that, although a Christian, he has
the greatest respect for the Mahometan
religion, and that If the Turks are cruel
and fanatical they must be unlike the
followers of the same religion in Egypt"
John Fox Potter of Milwaukee, who
was a congressman from 1857 to 1868, cele-
brated his S0th birthday on Tuesday. Con
gresham Potter" says the Milwaukee
w ASSOuSlll, was StdlWdFL republican,
and was one of the first northern con-
gressmen to stand up against the inso-
lence and brutality of the Shareholders in
that body, who had banded together to
suppress by Intimidation the utterance or
northern Views regarding slavery In the
halls of congress. His acceptance of a
challenge from Roger A. Pryor to fight a
duel, in which he named bowie-knives as
his choice of weapons, causing Pryor TO
back out. made him famous everywhere
as 'Bowie-kn4fe Potter"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-23

OLD NEWSPAPERS. 90 for p cents
Business ONCE Morning News
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28
PEERAGE FOR AST0R
AN AMBITION THAT DISTURBS
AMERICAN FINANCIERS.
HIS VAST HOLDINGS HERE
-Four Thousand Houses and BUILDINGS
May Be Forced on the Market in
the tropolis-Curious Features Of
the Management of the Aston Es-
tate.

New York, Jan. 17.-Financial cir
cles are considerably disturbed over
the cabled reports that William Wal
dorf Aston has become a naturalized
citizen Of Great Britain. This means
that the real estate holdings Of Mr..
Aston nthis city must change hands
and that involves something like s125,-
900, 900.
Mr.. Astor, at the time of his fathers
death, half dozen years ago, inher-
tied all Of the Astcr estate held by the
old gentleman, who was John Jacob
Aston the second. The annual in
come from this estate amounted. to
more than s6.0O0,0O0, and it is gener-
ally believed that William Waldorf
Astor has spent every penny of this
vast sum during his four years resi-
dence in England. How he spent it
is another story.
What concerns the finar cial people
of this city is the problem of unload
ing the s125, 100000 of real estate. This
comprises property of all kinds from
the great Hotel Waldorf, worth, with
its furnishings and equipments, about
100000, to tracts Of unimproved
land along the northern boundaries of
the city. There is the great, grim
Astor house ON lower Broadway and
innumerable office buildings in the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28
WHEN A BONAPARTE WEBS.
Arrangements Have Been Made for a
Magnificent Event

Lately Nine. Bonaparte, the mother
of the young girl who became the bride
of a foreign nobleman, informed your
correspondent of a. number Of unpub-
lished details regarding this much-dis-
cussed marriage. The brides only
sister is a nun. She is known in the
religious world as Sister Mary de Sales,
and is a member of the Assumption
convent in Baltimore.
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte,
brother Of the fair young bride, is
handsome youth of 18, and is studying
at the Georgetown college, The walls
OF the Bonaparte home are hung with
rusty swords and battle axes and other
quaint objects are placed against queer
old pieces of crimson Or purple velvet,
embroidered with a monogram "N'' in
gold thread. Figures in silver armor
stand at the entrance to all the doors
which open off the great entrance hall,
and also at the foot Of the winding
stairs. Since the death of her husband
six years ago, Nine. Bonaparte has
scarcely entered society. Her daughter
is very fond of driving.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28

for to attain life she had to break
through the thickest walls of conserV-
atism than ever chained woman to
that arch slave driver-precedent.
The English Amazon is plentiful.
She halls from the Dsost aristocratic
circles, and she has permeate6 every
branch of sport, not to follow, but to
lead. She is either duchess, count
ess, baroness, lady, or AN honorable.
She is the friend of royalty. The
rest of feminine England is bound to
follow in her footsteps and do as she
does.
About thirty years ago a certain
Lady William Osborne, distinguished
for her kindly charity, her beauty and
her happy disposition, rode hard
across country after the hounds. Eng
lish society was shocked when the
news Of this daring innovation reached
its dainty ears. The charming per-
sonality of the woman was potent
factor i'll her favor, but she was con-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28
WAS A COLOSSAL TRIBUTE.
Original Idea of a Husband VIII;
Wished to Behave Handsomely.

He had not been in WASHINGTON
very long, but he lived in a way that
soon commanded the interest which
lavish dis " of wealth is sure to
win, and a circle of friends soon gath
cred about them, who learned to for
give their shortcomings in etiquette
because of the generous sincerity of
their natures.
There amt any good of us givin'
teas and things" he said, bluntly, to
one of his more intimate associates.
I'VE don't enjoy 'em. Susan's tried
EN-, and they're all right in their way,
but they don't amount to anything
after you get 'em over with
Still, it's only natural that your
wife should like to attract some at
tention in the world. That's only a
normal feminine Characteristic.
Il know it, And I mean that she
shall attract attention. But it's bust
ness that we're good in, and not So
ciety. She likes business just as much
as 1 do. She showed that when she
married me. [ didn't have dollar. I
was prospecting for mine, and [
hadn't struck anything that looked
Ike metal, but l knew it was there
| met her at huskin' bee. 1t was one
of these light and frolicsome occasions
girl every time he found a red ear
It was a new game out there When
| proposed to her she said she knew
| was poor, but she guessed a man
with enterprise enough to bring his
own red ears of corn with him in his
chances, had enterprise and gumption
enough to cash in a few chips when it
came to settlin' up most any kind of
game. And when the mine began to
pay out silver SO pure that it could be
made into teaspoons as it came out of
the ground she was a heap more in
terested in fndin' investments for the
money than she was in buyin' Paris
bonnets; although nobody could say
that she sighted a friend when it was
the genuine article. She's worthy of
a better monument than a centerpiece
on a dinner table, and OF more fame
than a paragraph in the society col
umn. And I'm the chap that's goin'
to see that she gets EN-"
What do you propose to do-found
a library?"
Grounding library's only a little
of it. I've got the ground, and I've
got the plans, and I'm going to found
a town. It's got the location and I've
got the capital and energy. You know
this place up in the northwest called
Minneapolis ?"
"Of course
well, I always thought that when
that town was named somebody had
paid a compliment worth while. I've
no doubt that Minnie is nice girl
and I haven't the least thing against
her personally; but I'm going to have
a town named Sus1rarclis that'Tl make
Der turn pale With envy +"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28
neighborhood Of Wall

neighborhood Of Wall street. each
worth one or two millions. On the
west side Ct town, in the older por-
tons of the city, whole blocks of resi-
dence3 are owned, each house worth
from $4,000 to 100000. Then in
other sections there are innumerable
leaseholders, the buildings being
owned by outside parties who pay rent
for use Of the ground.
At the time John Jacob Astor died
it was estimated that he had be-
aueathed about four thousand resi-
dences and buildings to his son. Since
the time Of his fathers death William
Waldorf Astor has not added to the
real estate holdings of the family. He
has improved certain sections, like the
erection of the Hotel Waldorf on the
site of the family mansion, and the
tearing down of old Office buildings,
replacing them with structures of the
sky-scraping variety. But the pur-
chases of additional property he has
avoided.
Before old John Jacob Aston the
first died he laid down certain max
inns of wealth building kind, for the
benefit of future generations of his
family. This wonderful man, with
rare Judgment that seemed almost in
spiration, had from the days when
New York was scarcely more than a
village, foreseen it's ultimate growth.
To his eldest son. William Back
house Astor, he said: 'Put all your
spare money in property just outside
the city limits. In time the city will
grow up to it. Always buy corner
property and never sell corner proper
ty. Don't bother with railroads or
other stocks. Keep away from mines
and business ventures. Just stick to
New York city. Don't buy land any
where else"
These instructions were followed to
the letter by William B. Astor and
his sons, John Jacob and William, the
result being that when John jacob
died he left s125 900 900, and when
William died he left to young John
Jacob S70.000,000. There were other
rules which the first John Jacob form
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28
ROCKFORD GIRLS VICTORY.
Miss E. Mae Danison Elected Prosecute
ing Attorney of Nebraska County.

Miss E. Mae Danison, formerly of
Rockford, now OF Long Pine, Brown
County, Neb, enjoys the distinction Of
being the first woman in the United
States to have been elected to the Of
flee of county prosecuting attorney.
having been chosen to fill this position
in the recent general election. Miss
Danison is 25 years Of age and grad
lated from the law school last spring
at the home Of Mr.. Bryan, at Lincoln.
Neb. During the summer she was
nominated for the office by the popu-
lists and was Endorsed by the demo
Gratis. The nomination came to her
unsought and she accepted it simply BE-
cause Of the compliment rendered, hay
ing no idea that she S God a chance
of election. Her opponent on the re-
publican ticket was Mr.. McAndrew of
Ainsworth, a gentleman who had been
in practice for fifteen years. Miss
Dan1Son took an active part in the
campaign, the first time she had ever
dabbled in politics, and to her great
surprise, when the ballots were count
ed, she found she had won. Brown
happened to one of the counties in the
state which broke it's record and fell
into a popocratic column, carrying her
along to victory with the other local
candidates. Now she is receiving let
tiers Of congratulation from strangers
all over the state
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28
YOU Mustn't.

Whenever l longingly. look
Into Mildred's great, beautiful eyes,
She chances away, .....
And imploringly cries:
you mustn't
Whenever l stealthily steal
Close to Mildred, she waves me away
And then she is sure
To reprovingly say:
you mustn't
Whenever I lovingly play
With her great rich masses of hair,
She never neglects
To firmly declare:
You mustn't"
Whenever 1 catch her and press
A lingering kiss on her lips she is
sure
At last to eXclaim,
In a manner demure:
you mustn'tn'
All, many a moment of bliss
Had I with Mildred neglected to
share
Had I not gone ahead
When | heard her declare:
You mustn't
Cleveland Leader.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28

accused persons in MaZas once a week
and talk matters over with them.
have assisted at some of these Mon
days in prison." as NJ. Mace, an old
chief, calls them in his book on the
subject. They appear quite friendly,
unofficial interviews; all sit cozily to-
gether, the prisoner and the police,
versation is at first quite general But
woe to the prisoner who is not on his
guard; a simple hint, a word dropped
casually, a change Of face when some
doubtful detail in the affair is men
toned, will serve to give strength to
the case. At one time a still more in
defensible practice obtained; if an &C
cused person continued obstinately
dumb he was given cell companion,
a false friend, some other prisoner
known in slang talk as the mouton, or
spy to worm himself into the other
confidence, obtain revelations, then be-
tray him to the authorities. Occasion
ally a disguised detective has per-
formed this dangerous and rather dis
gushing duty. Nowadays right-think-
ing French judges are found who dis
approve Of the practice, and it is sell
dom, if ever, tried. The double cells
used for the purpose still exist, but the
association Of two prisoners is gen.
orally reserved for cases where one Of
them shows suicidal or other mania
CasselPs Family Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28

for his fare, took a nickel from the in
terror Of his left ear and gave it to the
conductor.
"A queer place for carrying money"
| said. I know of many odd places
that people carry money in, but that
is the oldest"
1T was with view Of drawing your
attention to dangerous practice that
l asked you to look at that Chinaman,"
said the doctor, and then he nudged me
to look in the direction of a WE'LL
dressed lady who had but a moment
before taken her seat and was FUN
bling in her purse for her fare. She
found the coin she was in search OF
and placed it between her lips while
she closed her purse, and then taking
the coin from her mouth, held it in her
hand until it was called for.
L suppose you saw that lady place
that coin between her lips?" said the
doctor.
Yes; what of that? have seen that
done q hundred times"
Did it ever occur to you that the
practice is a dangerous one and the
source of more disease than many
people imagine? Does that lady know
where the coin was before she placed
it in her mouth? May it not have been
in the ear of her Chinese laundryman
or cook, or may it not have been in
the pocket of some individual affected
with contagious disease? If it was in
the ear Of an Individual who had an
affection of that organ the microbes Of
the disease would cling to the coin, and
when placed between the lips, if there
should happen to be cold-sore there,
or, as it often happens, a rupture OF
the tissue, the germs of the disease
would find Judgment there and the per-
son guilty of the practice would wonder
how it happened that there was any
thing the matter with her. The mi
crobes of contagious disease will attach
themselves to coin, and now you can
see how easy it is to transmit disease
not only by cold-sore or a lip that
is what is commonly called cracked
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28
CoUN1ESs,
OF
HRQINGTM

demned. But that did not deter her,
and she kept ON hunting every season
of her life, until she had passed her
siNtieth year.
Now the women Of distinction who
follow the hounds are legion. There
are half a dozen who outrank a |
others in skill and daring, and these
are headed by the duchess of Hamil-
ton, the duchess Of Newcastle, the
Vicountess Curzon, a relative Of the
former Miss Letter, the American
beauty; Lady Hesketh, an American;
the baroness of Tuyll, and the Hon.
Mrs. Herbert Asquith, famous as Mar
got Tenant, and the alleged original
of Dodo.
All of these ladies hunt in what is
Familiarity called 1.-The shires," COM
pTising Leicestershire, Northampton
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28
JUSTICE IN FRANCE.
Prisoner is Deemed Guilty until He
Proves Himself Innocent.

The prison premises at the depot of
the prefecture are very insufficient, and
it is blot on Paris that such a place
continues to exist without improve
ment. Anyone almost might be obliged
to pass through the ordeal of a night
at the depot. Mistakes have been
made before now by the French police :;
persons of undoubted responsibility
and perfect innocence, foreign visitors
in particular, have been arrested, and
when once in custody they cannot go
free until all the formalities have been
fulfilled. In France, an accused per-
son is deemed guilty until he proves
himself innocent, and as this principle
may press very hard at times, better
arrangements should be made at the
prefecture. There is one little room
set apart for the better dressed of the
captures brought by black maria; this
is called the Sale des habits noirs,"
the room for decent coats, to which are
sent the OutWardly respectable; these
favored folk who have the privilege Of
being crowded to the number Of thirty
or forty in a very limited space are
mostly clerks charged with fraud,
seeming swells who are really adven>
turers, forgers, embezzlers and the like
There arr few separate cells, seventy
six for male and as many for females
set apart for the top sawyers in crime
or those brought in under a judges
order, but the rest of the days tax
ings' are herded together, sometimes
to the number of 200 Or more in one
great arched hall, with stone floors and
wooden benches, big, dark, dreary
and ill-ventilated chamber nearly al
ways crammed with dirty, ragged
mass of wretched humanity. One or
two narrow exercising yards give some
relief, but in bad weather the hall is
always full, and at night the prisoners
lie closely packed on mattresses on the
floor
The prison system in Paris improves
directly the depot is done with. An
accused person must either be released
within twenty-four hours or be sent to
Mazas, the trial prison, where all thus
The Improvement means that he is now
lodged alone in a small, separate cell,
where his friends and his advocate may
have access to him and he may prepare
his defense. Only in certain cases he
is kept ''au secret" in absolute isola-
tion-that is to say, seeing no one,
speaking to no one; the hand of justice
is thus heavy upon him, for fear he
should escape conviction by planning
some subterfuge or manufacturing an
| alibi and false evidence to support it.
! Whether Eau secret or not, he is con-
! tinually harassed by ths judge, who
''instructs' or prepares the indictment
and whose business it is, by repeated
! questiOnings, to elicit confessions or
! admissions of guilt. This, to English
| ideas, is taking an unfair advantage OF
| him. but in France the system is car
ried still further, and it is the custom
| for the chief Of detective police to 7isit