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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15
oh,ect,pp Pronerty Owners.

According 10 the report made TO the
county commissioners at their last meet
ing the movement. towards draining
swamps west of the city is in danger of
being checked by property owners who
object to drains being cut through their
lands, except on conditions too burden
some for the commissioners to accept.
What do the commissioners propose to do
about it? Do they intend to abandon the
drainage of these swamps simply because
property owners have put obstacles IN
their way? 1t is to be hoped not. No one
thing that can be mentioned is of so much
Importance to the city as the drainage OF
the swamps and wet lands which are
close to the city's limits. The health of
the city is a matter of the highest consid-
Grafton
The thing for the commissioners to do
therefore is to have the land needed for
drains condemned. The law gives them
authority to take such land as they want
for drainage purposes. They would, OF
course, have to pay the appraised price
for it, but the amount wouldn't be very
much if the land were appraised at the
value put upon 1t by the owners for pur-
poses of taxation, and if the benefit which
drainage would be to the lands adjacent
TO the drains were taken into account in
assessing the damages.
It would be much better for the county
to pay something for the land needed than
to put off the draining of the swamps from
year TO year with the hope that the prop
erty owners would eventually donate to
the county what land was needed free of
conditions. 1t is a difficult matter to get
a lot of property owners to give any part
of their land for public use, however much
such use would benefit them, If they think
they can get from the public treasury
many times as much as the land needed
is worth. Therefore the commissioners,
instead of trying to get property owners
to donate rights-of-way through their
lands, should proceed at once TO inaugu-
rate condemnatory proceedings. When the
property owners found that the commits
sioners meant business, and that If they
should continue to check drainage inn
provements they might be much worse off
than If they should encourage them, they
might donate the rights-of-way to the
county. But whether they would or not
wouldn't be of much consequence. The
amount the county would have to pay for
rights-of-way wouldn't be large.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15
II WAS Apotber Chnrlev.

The passengers on a Lexington avenue
cable car were much amused yesterday
afternoon by the conversation of two
fashionably dressed young women who
had boarded the car at different points, says
the New York Tribune. After they had
exchanged the usual greetings, one of
them turned to the other and said:
"Oh, / had such an experience yester-
day. l went out walking with Charley,
and would you believe it, he ran away
from me at Forty-second street. and l did
not see him again for hours. L think it
was a shame for him to treat me in such
a shabby fashion, don't you?"
L do, indeed, my DEAR" replied the sec
ond young woman.
You know" continued the first young
woman, Il always thought him perfectly
lovely, but the folks at home say that
have spoiled him. He is too fat and lazy
for anything, and 1 am through with him
forever"
At this point in the conversation the sec
ond young woman became intensely inter-
ested, and she quickly exclaimed:
Then it is all over between you?'
Eyes"
"Wen, really do you know. I never
could see how you became SO wildly infat-
uated with him. "
with whom?'
"Why, Charley, of course"
Il used to think he was the loveliest
thing on EARTH
II know you did, my dear, but then his
salary was hardly sufficient to keep you
in the style you"
why. what are you talking about lex
citedlD? Whom do you mean?"
why, of Charley, my ST. Bernard, Of
course"
Certainly you Were, my dear" replied
the second young woman, as a light be-
gan to down upon her. 81 knew that,
and I was only trying to quiz you But
! must get off here. Good-by, dear Re
smember me to Charley-I mean take good
care of him, ana don't spoil him any
more"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15
BRIGHT BITS.

-Askim-Does literature pay.
Tellum-Wen the Jews are beginning to
go into it.-Life.
--Yabsley-Think you'll get a chainless
wheel?
Mudge-If I do. it will be at the cost of
wearing a watchless chain.-Indianapol
Journal.
what do you think of your mother
in-law?" asked Gains wifes sister of
Gains wife.
She's very original woman" replied
Mrs. Cain.-Puck.
-Unchanged.-"W eyler seems to retain
his military tastes."'s 7foe
What do you mean?'
This paper says, that he desires moth
ing more than a quiet retreat."-Puck.
Brutal Conduct.-"My wife had good
cry last night"
What about?"
"She told me to guess what she had
bought me for Christmas, and l guessed. -
Chicago Record.
Putt in Circulation.-"Miss Tiker
wouldn't have me, but she evidently APP
preciated my proposal"
''Why do you think SOP"
,"She told fifteen different girls about
it."-Chicago Record.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15

The leading article in recent issue of
the Monthly Record. published at the
state prison, is entitled 1.-THE Borderland +"
and is written by No. IS II, and has a
decidedly religious tone, says the Hartford
Courant. Five rules for conduct are laid
down, and the author says they are prin-
ciples by which his life is governed:
- If possible, be Well and have a good
appetite. If these conditions are yours. the
battle of life is already half won. MANY
soul and heart troubles arise really in tho
stomach though 1t may seem strange 10
you.
2. Be busy Fill the hours so fun Of
useful and interesting work that there
shall be no time for dwelling on your from
bles, that the day shall dawn full of ex
pectation, the nightfall full of repose.
3. Forget yourself. You never win he
happy If your thoughts constantly dwell
upon yourself your own perfections vour
own shortcomings, what people think of
you, and so on.
4. Expect little. Expect little of life. not
too much of your friends
5. Trust in God Believe that God ts
that he really knows what is best for Won
believe this truly. and the bitterness As
gone from life -
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more"

From the Pail Mall Gazette,
If 1 might build palace fair
With every joy of soul and sense,
And set my heart as sentry there
To guard your happy innocence;
If | might plant a hedge too strong
For creeping sorrows to writhe through
And find my whole life not too long
To give, to make your hedge for you.
If could teach the laden air
To bear no sounds that were not sweet
Could teach the earth that only fair,
Untrodden flowers deserve your feet,
Would l not tear the secret scroll
Where all you griefs lie closely curled
And give your little hand control
OF all the joNA of all the world.
But ah, have no skill to raise
The palace, teach the hedge to grow:
The common airs blow through your DAYS
BY common paths your dear feet go;
And you must Irvine, of common flowers.
The wreath that happy women wear.
And bear, in desolate rlarkened hours.
The common griefs that all men bear
The pinions of my love I fold
Your little shoulders close about.
All! could my love keep out the cold.
Or shut the creeping sorrows out!
Rough paths will tire your darling feet.
Gray skies will weep your tears above.
While round your life, in torment beat.
The impotent wings of mother Lowell
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15


Here, says the Chicago Record, are some
Mckinley will not write:
To the Congress Of the United States
greeting:
The foreigner pays the tax.
In harmony with custom, 1 take my pen
in hand to write you these few lines,
which leave me in the best of health, and
hoping that they will And you enjoying
the same blessing. You viii be pleased to
know that our domestic relations, includ-
ing Abner, are likewise first-rate
There has been some talk of armed
trouble in the island of Cuba. have not
got around to it yet. Besides, the entire
war if there be a war, mind you-!nclud
ing Gen. Gomez and the word 'reconcen-
trado,' has been copyrighted by William
r. Hearst and l am not at liberty TO say
much about it,
1T is better to open the mills than the
minis
Owing to the benefcient provisions of
the American system of protective tariff
gold has been discovered in the vicinity
of the Thirteenth precinct of the Fourth
ward in Dawson City, British America.
This is, of course, directly due to our cour-
ageous financial policy.
Minister Woodford cables me that
Spain is a first-class country to live in.
Rents are low, and the kaleidoscope has not
yet got into operation neither is there any
continuous vaudeville. Minister Woodford
is splendid Old gentleman. I like him
very much. He has side whiskers.
In the matter of seal fisheries, there
is little to say. By combining the theory
of pelagic bachelors with the Paris award
we have made much progress, and have
been able to work up another paying job
for John w. Foster.
THE white house sink leaks again.
Please send a plumber to fix it,
owing to the operations of the Ding
ley tariff law. a very handy famine has
occurred in other lands than ours, and
wheat has gone up so high that it is in
danger of suffering from the chill of the
attitude. Observe fuldllment of the prom
ises of the st. Louis platform. I hate to
rub il in, but our party is the party of the
home and fireside. There are a fewer rail-
road wrecks under a republican admins
tration than when the occupant of the eX-
ecutive mansion Is an advocate of the
theory of cheap coats for cheap men.
I'VE are in need of very drastic changes
in our election machinery. Senator Han
ma has been a victim of emotion and nerv-
Gus disorder for over three weeks, because
of the evident purpose of the proper par
ties TO neglect to deliver the goods
Does any of you happen to know what
is good for chilblains? 1 had some ex-
cellent medicine out at Canton last win
ter, but a man who wanted to be Secre-
tary of the Navy deputy United States
marshal or something equally as good
purloined it as a souvenir of the chilliest
day that ever happened.
THE army and navy both continue to
be highly entertaining and diverting. Al
most every day a ship with cuticle made
of steel two feet thick strikes a floating
barrel and goes to the dry dock.
And Gen. Miles-but / pause in ave.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15

The six days bicycle contest in New York
attracted wide attention. The fact that
some of the riders fell from their bicy-
cles from exhaustion long before the con-
test ended has caused such contests to
be condemned quite generally. Thomas
H. Murray, a member of the New York
legislature, writes to one of the New York
paper as follows: although a wheelman
myself and fond of every kind of athletic
sport, | am bitterly opposed to the tempta-
ton offered greedy stock companies to re-
alize money, as did the men who managed
the bicycle contest One of my first duties
as assemblyman-elect from the Twenty
first district viii be to offer a bill to the
legislature modifying races of this kind
which may be held in the state In the
future and any other inhuman exhibition
of endurance and brutality"
win Mr.. Murray include foot bali in his
bin? If not why not? Foot ball contests
for an entrance fee are more exhausting
and far more brutal than the New York
bicycle contest. Dozens of men are killed
every year in the game, and hundreds are
injured And yet most of the men who
condemn the bicycle race believe in retain
ing all the brutal features of foot ball.
Why is 1t that one kind of contest of en-
durance and brutality is condemned while
another is approved?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15
PER S0NAL.

The Earl of Aberdeen is to be nomin-
mated to the honorary membership of the
British Medical Association, a pdMtio oc-
cupied by less than half a dozen laymen.
"A large hall, named after Paul Revere,
has been dedicated in Boston by the Char
table Merchants Associate Revere
was the founder and first president of the
association.
The Sultan of Turkey is greatly infiu-
enced in his public policy by a Swade
employed, before Abdul Hamid 5 accession,
in the workshops Of the Yildiz kiosk
-Bordini, a rising French artist, whose
works were among the most remarkable
exhibited at this years salon, is on his
way to this country to paint portraits of
several women leaders of New York soci-
ETY..
Harry De Windt, the famous globe
trotter, says: Il have roughed it for the
past fifteen years in Siberia, in Borneo
and in Chinese Tartary, but 1 can safely
describe my climb over the Chilkoot pass
as the severest physical experience of my
life"
DIR. Karl Peters, ex-imperial commits
sioner for German East Africa, has made
preparations to start to South Africa,
where he will travel through RA8desia
and Portuguese Africa. The doctWst ex-
ploration is for the purpose of getting ac-
curate information of the gold workings
between the Zambesi and the Limpopo.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15

What is 20 be the future of China? This
question, owing to the announced deter
mination Of Germany, to permanently oc-
cupy Kiao Chou bay is being now serious
" discussed in about all the capitals OF
Europe. Is the great empire to be divided
among the powers of Europe? The opin-
ion is entertained by many that such is
ultimately 10 be its fate.
It was thought that Russia would pro-
test against the permanent occupation Of
any part Of the territory of China by
Germany. 1t seems that this view Of thu
situation was a mistake. In our dis
patches yesterday a leading newspaper of
St Petersburg is quoted as saying that
the absence OF protests from other powers
at Germany's evident determination to re
main at Kiao Chou bay indicates that the
partition of China has actually begun. and
will proceed quickly. IT is also stated that
Russian official circles appear indifferen,
to the step taken by Germany.
The reason probably why Russia is in
different is that she herself intends to take
a big if not the biggest, slice of the
Chinese empire just as soon as it becomes
absolutely clear that there is to be no
protest against Germany's action. Grea,
Britain and France can be depended upon
to claim their share OF the spoils. These
four powers would quickly adjust any diff
ferences they might have respecting the
portion of territory each should have.
China is in no position to defend her
self. Her army is hardly worth a second
thought and her navy doesn't amount to
much. In her war with Japan she dem
onstraled clearly her ability to protect
herself against any one of the great pow
ers. she has a vast population and mate
rial out of which great and powerful
armies could be made, but it would take
good military ana naval organizers several
years to prepare an army and a navy
which could successfully defend the en-
pire. If ii is really the purpose of the
great powers TO divide the empire among
themselves they could accomplish their
object long before the Chinese government
could get ready to offer an effective resist
ance.
The world did not know how weak
China was until her war with Japan. 1t
was then seen that her vast population
would count for very little in a war with
a first-class power-that her people were
more ready to run than to fight Under
the circumstances it is not strange that
Germany has grabbed portion of Chinese
territory. and it would be still less strange
if other European powers should follow
her example.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15

that the really great monetary crime was
not committed in 1873, as has been vari-
ously and persistently alleged, but in the
year 1881, when the states were denied the
right to establish and maintain minis of
their own, and coin and print money for
themselves. 1t Is understood that he will
make the "crime of 1857 political issue,
and will endeavor TO have the federal con-
stitution so amended as to give each state
the right to make it's own money, and all
of the money that the people of the state
may think is needed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15

The shipment of this seasons crop of
California oranges has already begun. The
fruit is said to be fine and it is predicted
that the output of this year will be al
most if not quite double the output of last
year. The lemon industry of California is
also said to have been greatly increased,
with the probability that the shipments
of this season win be twice as great as
those of last season. No fear is felt for
the market for Florida oranges, however
The Florida product is of so much finer
quality than that of California that It
will always stand in a class by itself and
command the top prices.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15

The season has arrived for many of the
Klondike investment schemes to suecumb.
One or two of Them with millions of dol
lars of capital, on paper, have already
gone into the hands of receivers, and it is
certain that others will follow. Probably
the majority of these schemes were start
ed for the purpose of fleeing confiding
lambs, and no doubt great many lambs
have been shorn. Klondike investment
concerns, generally speaking, are among
the very best things in the world to let
clone.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15
Not a sntinfnctory Arrangement.

In the northern republican papers there
are frequent references to the prejudice in
the south against the negroes. The editors
and readers of these papers seem not to be
aware of the fact that this race prejudice
is fully as strong in the north as it is In
the south. The reason there is more heard
of it in the south than in the north is that
the proportion of the population that is
colored is far greater In the south than in
the north. AS a matter of fact, there is
not nearly as much prejudice in the south
against the negroes as there is in the
north. That this is true is shown by the
fact that negroes in the south find ready
employment as carpenters, masons, black
smiths, shoemakers, etc. In the north
they are practically barred out of these
trades. In the south there is really no such
feeling of hostility to the negroes as there
is in the north. On the contrary, the feel
ing towards them is kindly. The prejudice
that exists crops out only when there are
signs of an assumption of equality in So
cial matters.
The tone of the northern republican pa
pers when discussing the race question in
the south is such as to create the impress
sion that there is no prejudice against ne
groes in the north, and yet there are cases
constantly arising there which show be-
yond question that there Is prejudice of
the most pronounced kind. Only day or
two ago at Roslyn l.. l., there was quite
discussion between the school board and
negro minister of that place relative TO
an application of the minister for permits
sion for his daughter to attend the high
school. There is no high school for ne
groes in the town The school board de-
cided that the application could not be
granted, but that the board would pay
one of the high school teachers for teach
ing the girl after school hours. That ar
rangement was not satisfactory to the min
lister who was more anxious to get his
daughter into the high school than to have
her educated This instance is only one of
many showing that northern republican
papers have more reason for criticising
the northern people for harborings pre-
JUDGE against negroes than they have for
criticislng the people of the south.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15

An interesting circumstance in connec-
ton with Mr. George Vanderbilts $1,000
geo life insurance policy is the commission
which the lucky agent who secured the
policy win receive. 1t is said he win be
paid 10 per cent. of the annual premium
for the number of years that such prem
iums are paid. As the annual premium
is $4,000. and policy is one of the twenty
year kind, the agent viii receive $500
year for twenty years. The same agent
is said TO have placed policies for 100000
each on the lives of Chauncey NJ Depew.
Cornelius Vanderbilt and r. A. Havemev-
er. Assuming that he received the same
rate Of compensation for having secured
these risks, he has made himself indie
pendent for life By writing four insurance
policies .0.--
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15

A Paris cable says that the Gould family
of New York has called a halt upon the
extravaganza of the young Count de Cas-
tellane, husband of Anna Gould, who has
been scattering the Gould millions at the
rate of two each year for the two years
and a half that the little Gould girl has
been countess. II is said that the New
York Goulds have informed the Countess
Anna that she must hereafter hold the
purse and put the count upon an allow
ance else before great while she will
awaken to the fact that her dollars all
have gone glimmering.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15

The Chicago Times Herald has Informal
ton which forecasts the early collapse of
the typewriter trust. The 500 typewriter,
it says. will soon follow the $500 sewing
machine and the 500 bicycle. The pat
ents on the essential features of the best
typewriters have now expired, and first
class machines can be duplicated without
infringing upon anybody's rights. The
makers, both in and out of the trust, are
said to be overstocked with machines, and
are anxious to sell. One of the members
of the trust has given notice of an inten-
ton to quit the combination at the begin
ming of the new year, when it is probable
there will be reduction of price. 1t is
said, upon the authority of an expert, that
the factory cost of the best machines on
the market is not over $l5 Taking into
consideration the heavy advertising and
other expenses which must be met, it is
suggested that the price will be reduced
to about $50
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15
Education i'm the south.


Secretary Wilson said on his return to
Washington from his southern trip:
what impressed me most was the mani
fest interest taken in the education of the
working classes in that section. In this
lie the best promises for the future of the
south, and the colored people are getting
their share of it, too" This reward of its
characteristics hospitality will be appreci-
ated by the south. The sectional press up
north will have to go II alone with its cry.
To demonstrate with a fair man like VIII
son would spring a boomerang.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meeting-Georgia Chapter No. 8. r. A.
M.
Special Notices-Y. NJ. c. A Course, Mr..
Louis c. Elson's Musical Lecture, Dec.
1918 at Guards Hall; Residence Tele-
phones; Ship Notice. Richardson & Bar
nard. Consignees; Fancy California
Oranges, Collins. Grayson & Co; Oranges,
Collins, Grayson & Co; Insure Your Prop
erty With Us, John T. Rowland, Manager
Savannah Insurance Agency; They Can Be
Seen Thursday 18th, r. d. & VIM. Latti-
more; Real Estate for Sale, James L. Ran
kin.
Business Notiees-Kennedy' Crackers;
The Girl From Paris Cigar.
Cottolene-N. K. Fairbanks Company.
Gas Ranges-Mutual Gas Light Com
pany.
Shopping Made Pleasant at the Big
store-B. H. Levy & Bro
What's His Size? -B. Fl. Levy & Bro.
Legal Notices-Notice to Debtors and
Creditors, Estate Dennis O'Neal. De-
ceased.
Auction sale-Positive Sale Furniture,
by J. Mclaughlin & Son.
Mineral Water-Apenta; Hunyadi Janus.
Medical-Dr. Charcots Kola Nervine
Tablets; Terraline; Johann Hoff's Genu-
Inc Malt Extract SCOTS Emulsion;
Hoods Pills; Cuticura Remedies; Lydia
Pinkham's Vegetable Pills; Castoria;
Browns Iron Bitters.
Cheap Column Advertisements-HeIp
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15

A case involving the most remarkable
doubles is before the courts in New
York A certain piece of property be
longs to Sarah A. Knight, but there are
two Sarah A. knights. One is a spin
ster and the other is a married woman
They are said to resemble each other very
closely, and each of them has deed to
the property. One of the women lives in
Maryland and the other in New York. The
court will try to determine which is 1.-THE"
Sarah A. Knight.