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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

Coal consumers may not realize any
benefit from the combination of the coal
mining companies which, 1t is said has
been effected by ]. Pierpont Morgan, but
the probabilities are that the coal miners
will When the announcement was made
that combination of the coal mining
companies of the whole country had been
brought about by Mr.. Morgan the con-
clusion was reached that it promised to
benefit only the coal companies and the
coal carrying railroads, but if it should
result in a decided benefit to the coal
miners there will be something to be said
in its favor.
1t is stated that Mr.. Morgan has in
duced the coal companies to agree to al
low the coal miners to share in the profits
of the companies. The plan is this: A
price per ton for mining coal is to be
agreed upon. That price the miners are
TO have whatever the price of coal may
be. If the price of coal advances beyond
what 1t was when the price per ton for
mining 1t was fixed the miners are to have
at least two-ifths of this advance in ad-
clifton to their regular price per ton.
An arrangement of that kind ought to
be satisfactory TO the miners. 1t makes
them partners of the coal companies
When the companies prosper they will
| prosper but when the price of coal falls
below the profit line the companies only
will be the sufferers.
The reason probably that some such an
arrangement was not adopted long ago
was the impossibility of getting the coal
companies to act in harmony. 1t was only
when capital in sufficient quantities took
hold of the coal producing business that
combination was possible. When a COM
bnation was formed the way to make a
| profit sharing arrangement with the min
ers was open. If the arrangement is per-
| fected strikes of coal miners will become
much less frequent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

The year 1897 was the best for number
of years in railroad circles, in point of
gross earnings, according to the figures
of the Financial Chronicle. Full reports
from all the roads are not yet at hand,
but the Chronicle has received such re-
ports from 1873 roads, and reports for II
months from 6S other roads, making 2o1
roads from which the data are compiled.
These reports show the actual gain in
business for the year 1897 to have been
nearly $59,O0O,0OO and the Chronicle ex-
presses the opinion that there are the best
of reasons for thinking that when the re-
will be found from $40, OO0, 900 to SIS, 100000
The grand total of gross earnings for the
POI roads heard from is $1,0S7, 500, 51S-a
most prodigeous sum, giving some idea
of the vastness of the railroad interests
of the country. The impartial returns
received show a gain of more than per
cent. as compared with last year, and an
increase over every year since 1890.
The heaviest percentage of gains was
made by the roads which lead from the
East into the grain regions of the West.
siderable gains. The business of the Penn
sy,vania roads was to some extent inter
fered with by the great strike in the coal
regions. still the expansion of their bus
mess was large and encouraging. The
leading Southern roads generally made inn
portant gains, not only over the years inn
mediately preceding 1897, but many of
them have improved even over
their receipts for years as
far back as 1892 Some of the
minor lines report losses in consequence
of the yellow fever epidemic in the South
west and the ensuing paralyzatiOn of bus
mess. Nevertheless the earnings were
more than $3,0OO0OO in excess of those of
1896. In the South the roads had the ad-
vantage of heavier cotton movement
though this was tempered by decline In
the price of the staple the overflow of the
Mississippi river and the epidemic.
The outlook for the current year the
! Chronicle regards as very encouraging.
There remains large amount of grain
in the West cotton in the South and other
! products In various parts of the country
| 10 be moved by the roads. Furthermore
business generally is in better shape than
| it was at the opening of the year Just
closed, and the probabilities are that there
| will be more travel on the roads this year
| than there was last
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
Pensioners, Complaints.

A good many queer letters are received
at the pension Office. nearly all of which
are tucked away in the files which contain
papers relating to a million cases, says the
Washington Star.
Some time ago a widow who had worked
hard to get a pension became possessed of
the idea that the post mistress Of her town
was her enemy. Here is the letter she
wrote the commissioner of pensions:
Il wan tel ye how old sojers widows are
treted by our Redheded postmistris she are
only fourth class anyhow. and keeps a
stoar redenge all the postal cards & let
ters too, witch we cant not get our papers
tel she have the same red herself. She re-
poarts to Com. Pensions that my husben
died of devlment witch are a lie he die of
the army an he war more piouser then our
Redheded postmistris;"
A Kansas man writes the pension office
the following:
Il see by the newspapers that you say
you are going to try to get Congress to
put a stop to the present opportunities
which the law offers to women to secure
pensions for life from the United States
by marrying an old soldier. What the devil
do you mean, sir? Do you want TO lose
your scalp? OF course you VIII be opposed
We were assured last fall that in case of
McKinley's election his Administered ton
you propose to deprive many of US of our
only chance of helping to perpetuate a
race of heroes and the pleasure of event.
ually being petted to death by a nice young
woman. Do you think the people will toll
crate such an outrage? .4ru.
But, my dear sir, if you must recon-
mend such a law. can't you make an ex-
ception of old bachelors-that's a good boy ?
Two of my near neighbors and myself set
tied here in the wilderness at the close of
the war, and when the country became set
tied ten years later we had lost our grip
l am 50 years old, and the other fellows are
past 80.
And now, o comrade! do not, I pray
thee, attempt to deprive us of our only
hope of ever securing the consolation so
necessary to gladden. our declining years.
For of course you know there is nothing
about old fellows like ourselves to induce
young women to marry us if they cannot
get a pension"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
BRIGHT BITS.

-Cadger: Will you give me a few cop
pers for a bed, sir?
Isaac Moses: Certainly, mine frendt
We're ish der bed?-Tit-Bits.
How can you say such cruel things
of your antagonists in debate?" she in
qulred, reproachfully of the statesman.
Oh was the reply, that's easy
enough. I keep a scrap-book, and when
my own IDEAS give out / go to that
Washington Star.
A Sherlock Holmes.-Oficer: There
seems to be nothing on the body to iden-
tify the man. We do not even know
where he lived
Bystander: OF course, it's rather indefi-
mite; but just after the car struck him
he cried out that he was a citizen OF
Greater New York.
officer: All! A Brooklyn man-Puck.
The blushing bride-elect was rehears-
ing the ceremony about to take place.
of course. you win give me away, pa
pa?" she said.
II am afraid have done it already,
Caroline" replied the old gentleman, ner-
vously. 81 told your Herbert this morning
you had disposition just like your moth
er's.'' '-Tit"Bits.
Miss Easte End; They tell me you
naughty Chicago men always take advant-
age of the tunnel when you ride through
it.
Mr. Buster: Yes; I generally do.
Miss Easte End: And do you really
kiss girls you don't know?
Mr. Buster: Kiss girls? 1 don't kiss
any girls. l pass plugged quarters on the
conductor.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
He Could Not Believe 1t.

Inc lady IN the railway car would have
claimed undisputed recognition as the most
overdressed person in any of the counties
through which the train passed had it not
been for her son, says the Washington
star. He was one of the weary-faced,
scrupulously clad little people who afford
support to the theory that poverty may be
a comparative blessing to the very young.
He did not look as if genuine good time
would tit him. The ambition to drill him
into unf1agging self-consciousness had
met with obvious and pathetic success.
He sat with his neck stretched out to keep
from Wrinkling his lace collar. The novel
which his mother read was one of the
most recent and ponderous. The title, in
large gilt letters, was turned toward the
aisle as she held it before her, turning the
pages with suspicious infrequency. A mist
had gathered on the pane, so that the boy
could not look out of the window Instinct
was more powerful than culture and be-
fore he thought he had taken his gloVed
finger and rubbed a round spot through
which he could look with one eye. His
mother fairly gasped with indignation.
HENRI she exclaimed.
Eyes. maam."
'You bad child! How can you do such
things?''
He made no reply, but penitently turned
his back upon the mental luxury with
which he had hoped TO provide himself.
But his mother evidently prided herself
upon her achievements as a domestic dis
ciplinarian. In loud voice she continued:
Now, you sit there perfectly quiet, and
remember what tell you. If you do any
thing like that again
AS she paused to consider her threat the
child gazed into her face with tense APP
prehensiOn.
I'm open the window and toss you out
and let the car run over you, so that all
the wheels will cut you up in little bits
of pieces.
tones of mingled incredulity and dlsmay,
he exclaimed:
Mamma! In my new brown sut?"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
PERSONAL.
ecutive.

Miss L. NJ. Johnson, NJ. D., Baltimore,
has just been admitted as a student TO
the Maryland College of Pharmacy. She
is the first woman TO be admitted since the
establishment of the college, in 1871
Mr.. Brunetiere's recent interview with
the Pope, according to the Paris Figaro,
lasted about three-quarters of an hour 1t
is said that while his holiness received the
French critic cordially, there was GER
tain reserve manifested on account of Mr..
Bruneuere's impressions-rath too vivid,
in the Pope's estima tion-of the democratic
tendencies of the Catholic Church in
America.
The Pope does his private writing
with a gold pen, but his pontifical sigma
ture is always given with white-feather-
ed quill, which is believed to come from
the wing of a dove, though persons who
have seen 1t say its origin must have been
larger bird The same quill has been
in use more than forty years. 1t serves
only for important occasions, and is kept
in an ivory case,
AT New England Society dinner some
years ago Mark Twain had just finished
piquant address when Mr.. Evarts arose
showed both of his hands down in his
trousers pockets as was his habit and
laughingly remarked: Doesn't it strike
this company as a little unusual that a
professional humorist should be funny?''
Mark Twain waited until the laughter ex-
cited by this sally had subsidized and then
drawled out: Doesn't it strike this COM
pany as a little unusual that a lawyer
should have his hands In his own peck
ets2''
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

All, well, there are others! Georgia is
not the only state which is limping along
without Governor these days. Connecti-
cut is in the same fix. Gov. Cook of that
state is in Arkansas, where he has been
for two weeks, for his health. Mean
time the Lieutenant Governor is also out
of the state, and neither official left a
qualified substitute TO act during his alb
sence. There is some question, therefore,
If Connecticut at present has a chief ex-
ecutive.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

Gen. Fitzhugh Lees manner of conduct
ing the affairs of this country in Cuba
continues to win warm praise from even
rank partisan Republican sources. Mean
time one cannot help wondering what
would have been the outcome if the Pres
ident had replaced Gen. Lee with some
less seasoned man in the early stages of
the administration. For instance. suppose
some diplomat of the Chicago pink cotton
brand such as the President has recently
favored. had been stationed at Havana
while all of that rioting was going on:
would he not have lost his head. called
for war ships, and got this country into
more trouble in a day than it could have
got out of i'm a year?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
SAVANNAH TO BOSTON pIrEc,
MERCHANTS AND MINERg
TRANSPORTATION co.
RATES OF PASSAGE.

TO NEW YORK-Steamer and rail-
Cabin, limited A days, $780, Cabin nm
limited, $1,000 Excursion. limitea 1'',
months, $S2. Second class. limited 4 davs
$1475 Jays
TO BOSTON-S teamer-Cabin liritoa
days, $22. Excursion, limited months s9s
Second class, limited days, ST.
TO WESTINGHOUSE and rail-.
Cabin, unlimited $500. Second class
limited 5 days. $11.2O.
TO DELPHIA-Steamer and RAN
Cabin. unlimited, $3.50. Excursion, linn.
tied 6 months, 5000. Second class, umi.
ted days. $l25O.
TO PHILADELPEIA-S teamer-Cabln.
unlimited, S17. Second class, limited /
days, $1150.
TO BALTIMORE-Ca limit 8 DAYS
$15 Excursion, limited months. s25 In
termediate, limit days, $3.50. Inferno.
date, excursion, limited 6 months. So
Storage, limit days $40.
The steamships of this company are an.
pointed to sail from Savannah to Balt.
more as follows STANDARD time):
D. H. MILLER, Capt. Kirwan, SATUR.
DAY. Jan. %, at p. m.
Steamship FTASCA, WEDNESDAY, Jan.
26, at p. M.
ESSEX, Capt. Billups, SATURDAY. Jan.
20, at 100 p. m.
And from Baltimore every TUESDAY
and FRIDAY.
J. J. CARoLAN, Agent
Savannah, Ga
W. F. TURNER, C. P. A.
A. D. STEBBINS, A T. N.
J. c. WHITNEY, Traffic Manager.
General Offices Baltimore Md
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
The Free Seed Distribution.
From the Washington Post Qnd.).

This ridiculous extravaganza has gradu-
ally enlarged itself from a modest begin
ming until 1t now represents an expendi-
ture of $4,000, that being the sum called
for in the agricultural bill before the pres
ent Congress. There is as much reason
why the government should furnish farm
ers with their agricultural implements or
their domestic animals as there is for this
free distribution of seeds We know of
nothing In the written or unwritten law
Of the land which suggests, even indi-
recty. such a custom. 1t is paeernalism
in its most vicious and demoralizing form.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

Senator Tiliman may. at any and all
times, be counted upon to make a speech
and introduce a bill against the use of
railway free passes. Anti-free pass agi-
tation was for years one of his Strong
holds" as a candidate, and as the Gov
ernor of South Carolina; yet it has been
a hundred times asserted in the public
prints and never denied that annual pass
No l issued by d. II. Chamberlain as
head of the old South Carolina Railway
was in the name of B. r. Tillman, then
Governor. However, Senator Tillman
holds that he is incorruptible, and hence
it is all right for him to receive favors
which should be denied to ordinary NOR
tails.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JANUARY 81 1885,

Capt. John D. Hart and Capt. Wiborg
of the steamer Laurada, were some time
ago convicted of flibustering, and three
days ago the Federal Circuit Court at
Philadelphia handed down a decision sus-
tanning the decision of the lower court in
Capt. Harris case. The following day the
federal court at Wilmington, Del, &C
quilted Capt. Edward Murphy, of the
same steamer, of a similar Offense charg-
ed. So far as the lay public can judge,
there was no difference between the expe-
ditions under Wiborg and Hart and those
under Murphy; still, according to the find
ings of the courts, there must have been
a great deal of difference.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
Not Duties, But Broader Markets.
From the Philadelphia Ledger Qnd.).

1t is made indisputably evident by these
labor troubles that it is not higher duties
which are needed in the cotton industry,
but more and broader markets. Not only
are they wanted but a material restrc-
ton of immigration is required. 1t is the
top and crown of folly 10 place heavy
duties ~on the products of cheap foreign
labor and TO invite cheap foreign labor
itself to enter our ports not only free from
duties, but with ELUSIVE welcome.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
CURRENT COMMENT.
Time Enough to Fix Issues.
From the New York World Dem.).

There Is time between now and 1900 to
reconsider and correct mistakes There
is time to adjust party policies to patent
facts. There is time for intelligent bimet-
allists to heed the warnings of such lead
ers as Senator Wolcott and TO present
their cause TO the people in such way
as 10 command popular support, or at
least to avoid public distrust and antagon-
ism. 1t is after all question of practical
common sense
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Peace River Phosphate Min
ing Company; Landrum Lodge No. As, F..
and A. M.
Special Notices-Can't Keep 'em, T. A.
Bryson, Columbia Agent; Ship Notice,
Strachan & CO., Consignees; Ship Notice,
Richardson & Barnard Agents.
Business Enthusiastically Tobacco,
Henry Solomon & Son.
Auction Sales-Desirable Gwinnett Street
Residence, by c. H. Dorset, Auctioneer.
Bracing Weather and Driving-Savan-
nah Carriage and Wagon Company
Boys Suits, Overcoats, Etc.-B. II. Levy
& Bro.
A Hard Nut for Competition to Crack
Falk Clothing Company.
Up to Our Ears in Work-Georgia Steam
Laundry.
Cottoene-N. K Fairbanks Company
Medcal-Duffy's Malt Whiskey; Hoods
Pills; Cuticura Remedies; DR.. Charcot's
Kola Nervine Tablets; Munyon's Rene
dies; Castoria.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Religious No
tice; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

. The stockholders Of the new beet sugar
factory at Rome. N. Y, held their first
annual meeting the other day. II was
shown that the company had made a prof
1t for its first year. which was considered
very gratifying indeed considering all of
the circumstances. 1t is said the farmers
in the territory around the factory, the
most of whom are stockholders, have de-
termined to double their acreage of sugar
beets for the coming season. The per-
eentage Of saccharine matter in the beets
raised for this factory averaged nearly IA
per cent, which is much higher than the
the average of German sugar beets.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

Florida is said to he driving a brisk and
Increasing trade with Cuba in beef cat
lie. The shipments are said now to aggre
gate something like 1000 head Of cattle a
week, with orders increasing. Cattle
raisers In Florida, according to the re-
port either believe that the war in Cuba
viii be continued for some time
to come, or are confident that
they will be able to hold their
own against Cuban competition in cattle
raising after peace shall have been es-
tablished. judging from the numbers of
cattle they are taking from Georgia and
other nearby territory to their ranges.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

The New Orleans Times Democrat de-
votes nearly half a column of its editorial
space to an article showing that the
steamship RAMA, from this port recently,
did not carry a larger cargo of cotton than
was ever shipped from New Orleans. So
has been made
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

The Orphans Court of Philadelphia has
decided that the fortune of the late Ar
thur Padelford shall be divided between
his second wife and his daughter by his
first wife, who was Bettina Girard. The
little girl is now 20 years old. The estate
amounts to approximately S225,OOO and
will be apportioned as if Mr. Padelford
had made no win, under the intestate
laws
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

1t is announced that the navy depart
ment will hold trials of turbine steam
engine similar TO that used in the Eng
lsh wonder, Turbinia, with view to sup
plying some of the new torpedo boats with
engines of that type. The Turbinia, it
will be recalled, has developed the high
est speed of any craft ahoat. High speed
Is not only desirable, but essentially nee
essary in torpedo boats.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
Anent wolcott's Report.
From the New Orleans Plcayune Dem)

Whatever benefits are to be derived
from the international restoration of sill
yer to an equal place. as absolute money,
with gold, will have to be postponed I'M
til all the great commercial nations shall
come to an agreement on the subject, and
that time will not come until France and
Germany, Austria and Russia, shall have
been impoverished and exhausted by war
in which all were defeated Then they
will be glad to use any sort of money
they can get. Until then, they must stick
to the gold standard as long as England
controls the worlds finances.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

The speaker of the Ohio House of Rep
resentatives was elected to his position as
an anti-Hanna man. The dispatches an
nounce that he is now giving the Hanna
men some of the best chairmanships of
committees in the organization of the
House. Evidently the speaker is deter
mined to do what he can to palliate his
offense against the boss and make himself
solid for future favors
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

In Chicago the other day a man died in
the chair while a woman barber was
shaving him; and now the paragraphers
are ringing the changes upon the old
joke turning upon the talkativeness of
women and BARRIERS. Talked to DEATH"
they are saying.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

The real friends of the anti-scalping bill
and the national quarantine bill should
be watchful lest certain too enthusiastic
friends of them load them to death with
amendments
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
-"Ry the var. Maiah- hnw nnch ai

by the way, Majah, how much did
the Cunnel get fined for knocking that
fellow down with his f1st?"
THE Cunnel was not fined at all. sab
He escaped punishment on the ground of
temporary insanity, sab, as he had a gun
In his pocket at the time of the trouble"
Indianapolis Journal. M
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
Az enterprige 81 Interest lo AM Mason

An enterprise of interest TO all Masons
is TO be undertaken at Buffalo N. Y.
in preparation for conclave of the or
der TO be held there before great while.
1t is proposed to erect for the purposes
Of The meeting a Masonic temple on lines
corresponding to the Biblical description
Of King solomon's temple. Every Ma
sonic body in the United States will be
invited 20 attend the conclave.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21

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