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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04
Mrs. Jim Ferguson at last

The best-looking married woman in that
particular locality of the Cumberland
mountains, says the Washington Star,
was Bill Magees wife, and 1t was the
constant wonder of the entire section why
so much sweetness had wasted itself on
such an emery and doless desert as was
Bill. In line was this was another WON
der why Bills wife, Susan Martin, hadn't
married Jim Ferguson, as everybody
thought she would have done. But that
had all happened a year before I came
into the mountains, and 1t gave me no
concern whatever. Like any gentleman of
taste, I admired Mrs. Magee and felt es-
pecially happy when, as it happened some
times, the clerks in the company's store
were busy and I could wait upon her. II
was thus one day that as she entered the
store 1 hoped around behind the counter
like youngster of 20.
What can do for you to-day, ma am?'
1 said, with a fine bow
Got any mournin' goods?" she inquired
with delightful hauteur.
Anybody dead?" 1 asked, forgetting
that it wasn't my business to be asking
questions.
NO" she hesitated, they amt egzack-
ly yit, but l thought I might as we'll be
sorter lookin' round
what do you want to see particularly? p"
I inquired, very curious to know what she
was after.
Il reckon l might as well see the whole
shootin' match, fer eff 1 want part III be
wantin' all thar is
/ threw down two or three pieces of
mourning stuff and piled black ribbon and
all the other habiliments of woe in the
shop down alongside.
''Thems right nice" she said after TAX
ing good look at the display, but amt
quite ready to take anything yit. You see
it's this away, colonel Last night Bill
aud Jim had words Gaze Jim helped me
acrost the footlog comm from meetin',
and this morning Bill he took his gun and
went huntin' fer Jim. You know Jim and
you know Bill. colonel, and eff they run
acrost each other you know what's goin'
to happen. Thar's a chance they won't
meet up with each other, and 1 reckon I'd
better wait" ttr
Probably it might be better" I ven
t1lred.
II reckon it would" she concluded, NOV
ing slowly toward the door, but you kin
kinder hold back a dress pattern fer three
err four days, can't your"
When heard from there last she was
Mrs lin Ferguson
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04
High Tnrin Can't Help Them.

The condition by which the cotton man.
ufacturers Of the northern states are con-
fronted is this: The capacity of the cot
ton mills Of this country is greater than
the country's demand for cotton goods and
the cost of manufacturing cotton goods is
less in the south than in the north. The
outlook for the northern mills therefore is
not very promising.
A delegation of fifty northern mill men
is now in the south studying cotton man.
ufacturing conditions. Their purpose is to
find out whether or not it is advisable
for them to establish cotton manufactur-
ing plants in the south If most of the cot
ton manufacturing were done in the south
it would not be long before the southern
mills would be having the same trouble
which the northern mills are having. The
northern mills cannot run on full time all
the year around because they cannot find
a market for their products. over produc-
ton forces down the prices of their pro-
ducts until the margin of profit disappears.
This is a condition which a high tariff can
not remedy, but which it helps to bring
about.
AS already remarked we are manufac-
turing more goods than the home market
can consume. We must have a share of
the foreign markets if our mills are TO
prosper and a pretty big share. There
is no need of a protective tariff to keep
foreign cotton fabrics out of our market,
because We can produce such fabrics at
a less cost than they can be produced else
where, but there is a need of tariff
which would help us to get control of for
eign markets. The Wilson tariff was a
tariff of that kind. While st was in oper-
alton our exports of manufac tured pro-
ducts increased enormously.
AT the meeting of cotton manufactures
in Philadelphia last week the thought was
thrown out a number Of times that a pro-
tective tariff was of no particular benefit
to the cotton manufacturers, but that a
tariff which would open foreign markets
to the products of our cotton mills would
be of ineshmable benefit. 1t would not be
surprising If all of our manufacturers
should finally reach the conclusion that a
democratic tariff is the kind of tariff
the country needs. AS long as the labor
of this country is so much more intelli-
gent than that Of any other our manufac-
turers have no reason to fear the competi-
ton of foreign manufacturers
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04
Three Hundred Thousand Lives Lost.

Three Hundred Thousand Lives Lost.
The Cuban insurgents have issued an
interesting manifesto. The paper declares
the plan of autonomy proposed by the Sa-
gasta government to be a deception and
a fraud, but adds that If 1t were sincere
and comprehensive it would not be ac-
cepted. Cuba would not accept seH-gov-
eminent on the plan that it is enjoyed by
Canada and Australia. The Cubans will
be free, or they will perish in the attempt.
This declaration should put a stop to the
talk lately heard in this country with re-
gard TO annexing Cuba to the United
States. The Cubans do not want annexa-
ton to any country. They are fighting
for absolute freedom, and nothing less will
satisfy them.
The insurgent signers of the manifesto
are very confident that the day of Cuban
liberty is not very far off, and they give
fourteen reasons why they think as they
do. And 1t must be admitted that the rea-
sons are good ones. Some of the details
given in the manifesto are striking. 1t
is stated that the Cubans have lost dur
ing the thirty-one months since the out
break of the war, not less than 10000
lives counting their soldiers and the wo-
men and children "assassinated by Wey-
Ter" What the Spanish loss of life has
been is not stated, but it is significantly
set down as a fact that of the $4,000 men
sent to Cuba from Spain, "only 10000 re-
main" What has become of the 10000?
Only few regiments have been return
ed to Spain. Probably not more than TO-,
900 soldiers have been returned to the
mother country, and the most Of those
that were sent back were sick and dis
abled. The others are dead. Accepting
the figures of the insurgents, which are
no doubt approximately correct, not less
than 800, 900 lives have been already sacri-
feed in the war; and the end of the strug-
gle has not yet been reached.
The probabilities are that Spain's losses
from fevers have been almost, if not quite
as heavy as her losses from the bullets
and machetes of the insurgents. Thirteen
deaths occurred in one of the Havana hos
pitfalls from yellow fever the other day.
Twelve of the victims were soldiers from
Spain, and one was a civilian native. 1t
is said the proportion of fever victims in
Havana averages about five Spaniards to
one Cuban; that soldiers are dying of the
fever by the dozen every day in the cap
ital city, and that the heavy death rate
is not told in Madrid, but is kept an Off
cial secret in Havana. For tl.= terrible
ravages of the yellow scourge at a time
when Spain needs her soldiers so sorely,
that country has herself to blame. Dur
ing the hundreds of years Cuba has been
Spains, nothing has been done to root out
the germs of the yellow destroyer. SAM
tary improvements have not been made
nor hygienic regulations enforced. Cuba
has been governed for the spoils. The in
justice and neglect which Cuba has suf-
fered are reacting terribly upon Spain.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04
Amend the CitN,s Charter.

Would it not be advisable to ask the leg
slature to amend the city's charter so
that it would not be possible to give away
its franchises except for limited periods?
These franchises, when given away, may
not have a very great present value, but
they may have an immense future value.
AS the city grows, the value of the fran
chises increase.
Corporations get all they can and they
keep all they get, and for what they get
they give as little as possible. In most of
the cities they have been getting great
deal In recent years-so much, In fact,
that steps have been taken in some cities
to prevent city authorities from being so
liberal to them.
The charter of Greater New York for
bids the city from parting with its fran
chises except for limited periods and for
adequate consideration. This citys fran
chlses WILL in time, become very valuable,
and, If wisely disposed of, will produce
a very considerable revenue which will
help to lessen general taxation. If they
are practically given away, as they have
been heretofore, those securing them will
get all the benefits arising from the citys
growth, in addition to the gains upon their
investments, while the people who own
the streets, and who, by building up the
city, make the franchises valuable, get
nothing.
1t Is not so very many years since the
old Savannah, Skdaway and Seaboard
railroad claimed the right to all the street
railroad privileges in Savannah. 1t built
it's lines in many streets, but for several
years operated a line on only two of them
namely, Bay street for two blocks and
Whitaker street from Bay to Anderson.
That corporation opposed every attempt
to construct other street car lines, and
the city authorities of those days submit
ted to its dictation. Eventually, howev-
err competing lines were built, though
only after expensive fights in the legis-
lature and costly litigation. The coming
of new street car lines resulted in better
accommodations for the public
More recently it was the big belt line
railroad which introduced electricity in
this city as a motor for street railways,
and the example of that line was followed
by the Price street line. The company
which is now in control Of all the lines was
the last to do away with the mule as
motor and the negro as a driver. Com
petition gave the people of the city the
street car accommodations they now have,
limited as they are. Without vigorous
competition it is doubtful if there would
have been much Improvement in the
street car service.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

There is a certain Clevelander who has
won considerable fame and some wealth
as an expert handler of horses, says the
Cleveland PlainDealer. He is also the
possessor of a pleasant home. charming
wife and a bright 3-year-old boy. The
latter Is the delight of his fathers heart
and the little fellow not only knows lots of
horse talk, but takes a keen delight In a
mild attempt at holding the reins over a
speedy trotter. The wee horseman has
picked UP the habit of calling his parents
by their first names, and the way in which
he utters them is decidedly cunning.
One day not long ago his father came
home in a hurry, and found that luncheon
wasn't ready. t
What do you think of that, my small
MANI" he cried as he tossed the 3-year-old
in the air.
Here's papa come home in a terrible
hurry and no luncheon ready. What
ought we to do with such a naughty mann
map"
The little fellows eyes sparkled.
Trade her off, Clint, trade her orr he
shouted.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

One man in New York who is probably
sorry he did it, is Ashbel p Fitch, who
changes his politics whenever he sees
signs of change in the dominant political
element, and often manages to make the
change in time to secure a good offices
Some years ago Fitch was a republican
and held office; then he became a demo-
crat, and held Office by the grace of Tam
many, and then turned republican again
and secured the nomination for controller
on the Platt ticket which has just been
so beautifully showed under. If Fitch had
been gifted with prophetic vision, he would
probably have remained a staunch Tam
many man.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

The lawmakers at Atlanta should go
very slowly in considering any measure
calculated to build up barriers between
employers and employees. There has been
already too much of that sort of thing.
What would be more in the way of ad-
vancemeut would be to tear down some
of the distractions, and let employer and
employee meet face to face and man to
man and adjust their affairs as might to
them be mutually agreeable. Mr.. Nevin's
bill to require employers to give every
man discharged "a statement in writing
setting out explicitly the cause of such
discharge" is an uncalled-for, even non
sensicaL bill. In effect 1t would make it
harder for laboring men to obtain en-
ployment. The time has not yet come to
require every workingman in Georgia to
carry around with him a character
from his latest employer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04
A NegIected INDUSTRY.
Columbus (Ga) Enquirer-sun Dem

Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun Dem.).
More sheep are fattened each year in
the city of st. Paul than are raised in the
states of Alabama and Georgia in the
same length of time. If ST. Paul can fat
ten these sheep, the south can do it also,
and just as cheap. We have the cotton
seed, cotton meal and huls, Ber-
muda grass lespidiza striata-sometimes
called Japan clover-and many nutritious
native grasses with which to make up
ration for sheep which no state in the
union can equal, and which will produce
as toothsome mutton as can be found in
the world. 1t is to be deplored that the
farmers of the south have almost Danish
ed from their farms this domestic animal,
which is one of their greatest friends.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04
Prohibition a Hopeless Failure.
From the New York Evening Post Qnd.)

New Hampshire is now confessed. even by
its most earnest advocates. Testimony to
the fact which Is of the highest import
ance was furnished at the convention of
Baptists in Manchester last week The
whole subject or temperance was discuss
ed at length. and the result was the adop-
ton of resolutions which declare that
I'VE note with great sorrow the open vio-
lations of the prohibitory law i'm our cities
and towns with the evident permission of
our commissioners, mayors and police
officials" 1t would seem as though the
most fanatical prohibitionst must soon
see the folly Of keeping on the statute book
a law which cannot be enforced.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04
PERSONAL.

Martin Irons the most prominent man
in the great 1886 strike, has come forth
from his retirement to take hold of the
social democracy craze. He is organizing
clubs in Texas and other southern states.
Prof. Darwin. who is lecturing in Bos-
ton, reads the greater part of his lectures
from notes, but has happy way of drop
ping into little impromptu explanatory
passages, which relieve his manner from
the style of the ordinary scientific lee
turer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

Bishop Coleman Of Wilmington, Del. in
an address a few days ago took occasion
to denounce what he called the deplorable
custom Of erecting heathenish monuments.
such as obelisks, wrecked ships, broken
shafts. faded flowers and urns over graves
Of Christians in cemeteries. Such things.
ne said, were destitute of any expression
Of hope or faith in the resurrection. Aside
from the theological consideration of the
subject as voiced by the bishop. IL may be
soid that there are a great many monu-
ments which bear libels upon truth while
'ney are themselves libels upon art. There
are 100 many monuments which as a mat
lef OF fact represent nothing but the abfl-
NY OF the estate of the late lamented to
pay the cost.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.


Meeting-Solomon Lodge No. l, F. and
A. NJ.
Special Notices-E. & W. Laundry; no
tice to City Court Jurors; Open Tonight,
A. j. Dierks; Ship Notice, Dahl & Ander-
sen. Consignees; Bottomry on German
Bark Jacobine; Elgin Bicycles $3.50, Leo
pold Adler.
Fall Suits-Falk Clothing Company.
$3.50 Bicycles-Leopold Adler.
You May Think 1t Too Early for Over
coat Talk-B. H. Levy & Bro.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company; American Line; Red Star Line;
Baltimore Steamship company.
Amusements-"Karl the Peddler," at
Theater, Matinee and Night Nov 6.
Legal Notice-Citation From the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
County.
AIedical-McElSee's Wine of Cordu; DO
tanical Blood Balm; Worlds Dispensary
Preparations; Cutcura Remedies; Hoods
sarsaparllla; Castoria; Ayers Cathartic
Pills; Carlsbad Sprudel Salt; Woman's
Friend; Erie Medical Company; Baco-
euro.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

Tom L. Johnson of Ohio need not crow
over John r. Mclean because the latter
cannot get the senatorship. Johnson can
not get it either, although he would give
a heap for it, Those hard-headed demo-
Gratis who are on record as being against
Mclean are all pledged not to vote for
a millionaire for the seat, and johnson is
a millionaire
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

Do the people. drink the more for pleas
ure, or to drown their cares? Do they
celebrate increased prosperity in the flow
ing bowl, or are they driven 10 drink by
adversely? If the figures of the internal
revenue department are to be taken as a
guide, there is good deal more drinking
in hard times than in good times. The
latest report of the commissioner of inter-
nal revenue shows that there has been a
considerable falling off in the movement
of nearly all kinds of liquors
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

No sympathy will be wasted on Bud"
Fuller, the man whom Judge Gambler of
Atlanta has just sentenced to ten years
in the penltentiary for leaving his little
child In the woods to die of starvation and
exposure. The crime was one of the most
tiendish imaginable. Had the unnatural
father dashed the little innocent's brains
out with lightwood knot it would have
been more kind than to leave it to the
slow tortures of starvation in a place
where 1t would fall prey TO ants and bugs
1t IS almost pity that the law did not
provide capital punishment for such
cnse.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

There may shortly be trouble in Vene-
zuela. 1t is said as many as 500 Venezue-
lans are opposed to the succession of An
drade to the presidency; and in Latin
America when there are as many as 500
men "agin the government 1t means a
revolution, or something closely akin to
it. 1t would not be surprising, therefore.
TO hear at any time that they had begun to
burn powder in Caracas.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

A New York woman is suing a railroad
company for $4,000 damages for spelling
her temper. She alleges that before she
fell from the company's car she was ge-
nial and pleasant whereas she is now ill
natured and cross. Presumably if she
were to get the money her graciousness
would be restored
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

Nearly 10000 men have gone to Alaska
by the Puget sound route since the rush
for the Klondike began, and the transport
tation companies are making arrange
ments to accommodate as many more dur
ing the first eight months of next year.
1t is expected that not less than 1900 of
these prospectors will come back to the
states for the winter, or for lack of sup
plies or money. 1t is a pity that lot of
this energy and enterprise cannot be turn
ed to the vegetable and mineral Klondikes
of Georgia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04
oeen carefully guarded.


A New York syndicate, according to
dispatch from Moscow, Russia, has sound
ed the cars government with a view to
applying for the concession of construct
ing a railway to Alaska to be operated in
connection with the imperial Russian rail-
way across Siberia. The idea, it seems, is
to make connection between the roads
across the straits by ferry boats and
bridges. By the proposed route it is esti-
mated that a trip around the world could
be made in about thirty-three days, or a
week less than the time made by Jules
Verne's hero in the famous story 1t was
asserted by a civil engineer of note not
long ago that a line of railway through
Alaska to Boring sea, to be operated with
the Siberian line, was a dream which
would never be realized, because of the
great distance, the climatic disadvantages
and the sterility of the country through
which it would have to pass. There would
be nothing to support the road except
through travel, and that would probably
not amount to enough q pay the fuel bill
of the trains.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

A week ago George Fred Williams was
able TO see vast numbers of Massachu-
sets republicans tumbling over each other
an their eagerness to get into the free sill
yer camp of which he was the command
er-in-chief. To judge from the election
returns, the aforesaid republicans must
have tumbled over each other getting out
of the camp again before it came to vote.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

A new social function in Chicago is the
asthma party" A society woman of that
city has instituted the custom Of giving
a regular annual asthma party" in cele-
bration of her recovery from the com
plant. Presumably this will be followed
by tuberculosis parties and paresis parties
for the adults, and Group and measles
parties for the children.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04

A national quarantine bill, introduced at
the last session of congress by Congress-
man Mahon of Pennsylvania, will be call
ed up early in the approaching session.
EH-Congressman Oates of Alabama, who
Is an Washington, and who recently had
some experience with the shotgun quar-
antine system in his own state is putting
in some good work in favor of the bill
in advance of the meeting of congress
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-04
Settle the Convict Question.
From the Atlanta Journal Oem.) J..

We hope for the sake of Georgia's good
name. for the sake of justice and humani-
ty, that the legislature will give this sub
ject its most careful consideration, and
that a penitentiary system may be adopt
ed which will reflect credit upon that
body and prove of real service to the state