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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16
Guard IRIS.
RUNS OF THE RACERS.
ply Two FavOrites Win at New
Orleans.

Orleans.
New Orleans, March 15.-Mazeppa and
4ount Washington were the winning fav-
Fites to-day. Free Hand, new per-
ermer, Won the youngsters scramble
~, bnt the race hardly established her
n I'm to class. 1t was ladies day and
p stand and grounds were thronged.
r. weather was fine and the track was
A.. Summaries follow:
Y'lrst Race-Mile Joe Shelby to I,
Fn, with Ben Frost to and 8 to 5. sec
4 o. and Ben Walker, so to 1, third. Time
fSecond Race-Two-year-o four fur
ehgs' Free Hand, 2 to l, won, with Dolly
gent, to and to ?, second, and Nellie
4 rlnce, to ], third. Time 0:49.
1 Ih'rd Race-Six furlongs. Mazeppa
yen won, with Maggie g., to / and to
second, and Uncas, 3 to 1, third. Time
I:l5.
Fourth Race-Handicap, mile and an
lishth, over four hurdles. Brakeman, 3
p l, Won, with Partner, Is 10 l and 4 to
second, and Arezzo, to ?, third. Time
Firth Race--Mile. Mount Washington, 8
10 o. won, with Tago, u to and 4 to I,
; sond, and Jim Flood, 10 to !, third. Time
sixth Race-NIne and an eighth. Dor
o'hy lie, TO 2 won, with E,lyria 70 to
ana to l. second, and Bizarre, u to l,
'alrd Time $50.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16
FOR Fi-t1 year,

Hoods Pills are the favorite family ca.
thartic, easy to take. easy to operate.-ad
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16

You must fortify your system against the
attacks of disease. Your blood.must be kept
pure, your stomach and digestive organs
in order your appetite good. Hoods sar-
saparilla is the medicine to build you ZIP.
purify and enrich your blood and give you
strength. 1t creates an appetite and gives
digestive power.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16

Mrs. winsiow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for children teethlng. It soothss the
child. softens the gums, allays all pain,
cures wind collie, and is the best remedy
for Diarrhoea. Twenty-Five cents bot.
lie -ad.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16
c,Drrs BEAT ODD FELLOWS.
NM Military Boys Doubled the Mys-
tic Tie Brethren's score.

,r,.o Cadets defeated the Odd Fellows in
Ne Of indoor base ball at Odd Fellows
= 1,7uIsst night by a score of 1S to 6. There
- large crowd present. The gallery
. elled and many spectators Were seat
ed on the floor.
Hoheuste!n was in excellent form and
,,,tcbed a fine game for the Cadets. He
hold the boys OF the three links down to a
+eu scattering hits and was wen caught
~. purse. The fielding of Loyenstein and
V-eicbselbaum for the Odd Fellows was a
feature of the game.
-. -nnra follows:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16

The teams of the C. L. A. and the
Guards played a practice game at c. L. A.
hall last night The Library team won on
n score of 10 to 6. The batteries were Horri-
kan and Sullivan for the C. L. A. and Nc
Elonough, Coleman and Stoddard for the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16

'Desbrosses and Cortlandt streets.
fWest 23d street station.
For any further informa ton apply to
any agent of the Southern Railway Com
pany or Its connections.
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RAILWAY.

sAvANNAH sHoRr LINR.


Passenge De
Shortest Operted ice
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4 Central Il PeninsuIar Railroad Co.

Line Tampa, "a Miles Jacksonville
IAIE TABLE EFF Feet IAN. "a 1885,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16

struck Out-By Hohenstein, 6; by Sandi-
Bases on Balls-Of Hohenstein, 2; Sadi-
Tmpires-Jos. S.rLovenstein and J. Birn-
baum.
Scorer-L. Butler.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

Name Unknown to Diplomacy.
British Admiral: II have instructions
to apply TO you for pretext for seizing
this port"
Resident British Consul: 81 got orders
two weeks ago to have one ready for
you, but it's no go; the Orentals are
onto us. Last week the Russian consul
spit tobacco juice all over the throne and
the king went into ccstacies and begged
to be taught so he could do it himself.
The French consul got a lot of marines
drunk and sent them through the city
smashing shops and natives in hope that
they would be mobbed and al he got
from the Grand Vizier was an apology
because the gentle sailors had to take so
much trouble in order 10 get little
amusement out of his dull country and an
offer to send some of his people on board
the ships where they could be licked
more easily. Yesterday McRannon Jones,
our advisor to the throne, kicked the
prime minister, a high noble of the
Foo Choo blood, down three flights of
the palace stairs and he only picked up
his turban and asked If the gracious
representative of Her IllustriOus Majes-
ty wished to kick him down the remain
ing flight"
Admiral:N "Have we no missionaries
hack in the country where the natives are
more easily eXcited?"
man back in the hills where the people
are wild enough to burn him If they
could be got on a little rampage. l sent
him letter explaining the gravity of the
situation and asking him to- cut off a
few calves tails or something like that,
to make them think he was working a
spell against em, so they'd burn the
mission buildings and he sent me back a
long letter with a lot of stuff / didn't
understand about working 'em in vine-
yards and getting 'em into folds and
wound up by stating that the govern
ment's instructions didn't cut any figure
and that a missionary could obey only
the commands of Christ Who is He?
I've worked for the foreign Office in
| this part of the world all my life and
| don't remember ever seeing the name OF
| Christ before. Sounds like Russian
| doesn't it? I've been in a blue sweat fol
| fear they've bribed the old man to play
| into the Cars hands"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08
Autonomy in Cuba.

Captain General: "Have the commits
sioners sent to offer autonomy to the in
surgents returned|'
Aide: mo, Your Excellency. 1t is said
that they have been hanged"
Captain General: I'VE will work that
for all it's worth to show to the world
what barbarians these rebels are. I'm
doubtedly 1t will have a good effect: we
must send some more officers to them"
Aide: "There is a sudden epidemic OF
sickness among our officers. | doubt IL
one can be found able to report for active
duty"
Captain General: Most unfortunate,
this general unhealthiness, just when
there is a chance to make them useful
we must keep 1t from increasing. Issue
an order requiring a surgeons certificate
from every one on the sick list"
In cafe one week later.-First sur
geon: Here's to the success of auton-
omy! Good thing all around and especial
ly so for surgeons"
Second surgeon: Right you are II
the demand for certificates continues
another week / shall be able to retire
from the service and buy an estate"
Third surgeon: ITS very well for you
man. Since the horses are all killed
and eaten, they have sent TO me a young
fool veterinary as my assistant, and yes
teTday, while / was absent, he issued to
Colonel Ronquindo a certificate for a ring
bOned SPAWN. II IL reaches the Cap
tain General my fate - Shades of per-
dition! It's done it's DEVILS work! Here
comes the detail to arrest me-"
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Captain General. 'When dio he ar

Captain General: "whcn dio he ar
rive?"
Spanish Don: ole landed day before
yesterday He's been here nearly forty
eight hours"
Captain General: as he satisfied with
the completeness of his investigdtion?'
Spanish Don. at has been very thOr-
ough. He has seen what lovely city
Havana is. lie has visited the cafes and
heard how fast the insurgents run when-
ever they see our troops. lie mas seen
that all our officers smile contcmptuouslv
when they speak of the enemy and mas
made a note of 1t for the enlightenmeht
of his countrymen. He has learned that
the concentrates were rescued from dire
evils that threatened them in the country
and are perishng on our streets SIMPLY
because they are too lazy to adapt them-
selves to the conditions of city ire win
his own eyes he has seen some Cubans IN
the criminal iails and realizes that theN
are degraded creatures, incapatle OF seli
government. lie is assured that the IS
land is con pletely pacihed because me-
himself. has seen no fighting whatever
during his stay here. He goes pack 10
tell his friends how scandalously thslr
newspapers misinform them.
Captain General "lf more of his KIND
would come to investigate instead OF
these pests of reporters public opinion IN
the United States could soon be changed
Make it pleasant for him tonight.
Spanish Don, rushing in early the next
morning: "The insurgents made raid
into the city limits last night! what
shall we do? They -"
Captain General: "Well. that's moth
ing to make such II fuss about
Spanish Don: - But they have
captured and carried away the Americana
business man who was to sail ON this
mornings steamer"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08
ARay OF Common Sense.

THE truth is" remarks the New
York Commercial Advertiser that
civil service reform cannot stand upon
sentiment Its only solid basis of last
ing progress is improvement of the
public service. 1t has succeeded so far
because it has increased the efficiency
Of lower and economized the time and
labor of higher public servants. 1t will
advance just as far and fast as ii does
that"
Our contemporary has hold OF the
right idea even though it be not wholly
accurate in its statement of fact That
the efficiency of the lower public SER
wants has been increased by the kind
of civil service reform now under in
speCtion at Washington is open to con-
siderable doubt In some departments
ii has. i'm others il has not, depending
largely upon the honesty and fairness
or the lack of these qualities with which
the law and the regulations bearing on
the subject have been enforced, and
also upon the appropriateness Of the
regulations to the special conditions
involved.
But it is clear that neither the ad-
vocates of civil service reform" nor
its opponents can maintain themselves
| permanently on a basis of sentiment.
| Results must determine. Where re-
! suits indicate defects in the law, the
law will have to be changed. And
| these necessary changes cannot be
| stopped by the action OF the profes-
| sional high priests of the examination
! fetch meeting together in convention
and fulsomely proclaiming like the
| Pharisees of old that they are not as
other men are. Up to this time we
! have had altogether too much mum.
merry, hocus pocus, fuss, fustian an6
make believe, and altogether too little
horse sense in the consideration of this
subject. a raw of the latter is well
| come.
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The Oriental situation.

Ho Wang: "You lookee plitty blue.
Been takee too much pillee?'
Ii Ping. "Plenty leason be blue. Bet
ter killee self new; by-un-by 40 have any
country send ashes to. Eulyplean govle-
ment takee Iii slice; by-un-by takee VIII ole
pie. Break China up, alee-same dyna-
mite stick bust Hop Ling las week.
Ho Wang: "Eulyplean govlement no
findee black bird this pie; veliy mother
kind. Makee velly bad pie some time, 10
keepee good. Foreign devil got a big
snap now. Run railroad through ances-
tral graveyard; China vellv sick, no can
helpee. Alice right! You go soakee head
clear and we start a firm putee ashes in
cold storage iii while till Eulyplean boss
give Chnaman plenty big boost, alice
samee upee date, so Chinaman give boss
plenty big bounce, alice samee Mclean
cook bounce Sam Lee las Meek.'
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08
HIGHLY COMPLIMENTARY.
From tho Pittston Gazcttc

The appointment of Major Penman to
this responsible and lucrative post is not
only a decided victory for Congressman
Connell, who pressed Ma jor Penman's can
didacy. but it is also highly compliment
ary to the appointee. in view of the fact
that he has held the office before. Major
Penman made an excellent record as in
ternal revenue collector under the lIar-
rison administration, and this doubtless
.ad no little influence i'm securing his
appointment by President Mckinley. Tn
der his charge, we are assured al hon
est and business-like conduct Of the af-
fairs of the Office during the next fDur
years
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

II is evident that the struggle in
Cuba in any serious military sense is
over. The scene of war has now shift
ed to Madrid, where it is a battle be-
tween Weyler ana Sagasta for the
mastery of public sentiment. If Wey-
Ter wins, there will be war with the
United States. If Sagasta wins, Spain
will abandon Cuba as soon as satis-
factory terms can be made. sagasta,
holding the election machinery and the
other mechanism of power, will win
and Cuba will be free. This is how it
looks now.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

ascendancy over their less fortunate
American colleagues.
Previous discussions of this subject
having generally ended in an argu-
ment pro and con as to whether the
present diplomatic machinery, with its
large amount of formalty and red tape,
is In keeping with the busy spirit of
the age and whether il might not be
well to do away with 1t altogether;
therefore to meet a probable recur-
renee of this kind of talk II may be
timely to say that so long as ambassa-
dorial functions are recognized and
sustained by international usage, the
government of the United States would
simply injure it's own interests If it
were to quibble and haggle over the
cost necessary to uphold its end. There
will probably never come a time in the
history of the world when sharpened
wits competing through diplomacy for
the honor and prestige and CONNER
cial advantage of their respective
countries will become obsolete in state
craft; hence it is simply a question
with the congress of the United States
whether it desires to have the repre-
sentatives of America entered in this
inevitable competition on equal terms
or entered with handicap.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08
Down South.

Excited Citizen: "Hold on there. hold
on! Great Scott, Colonel, you've lynched
the wrong nigger!'
Alabama Colonel: "The wrong niger?
How's that? 7 didn't jab the pitchtork
into him moren a dozen times before he
quit insistin' he was the wrong man ana
confessed to everything. Now ] suppose
the Northern papers'll blame the South
again, Why don't they send more mis-
sionaries down here and teach these here
trifiin' niggers to stick to the truth?"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

A child born on this day will notice that
the fellow in politics and matrimony who
lets his relatives do the counting gem
orally has to be content with anything
but the first prize.
Marriage is not a failure. 1t is the at
tempt at realization of anticipation that
often proves fruitess.
The disappearance of freckles on your
best girls nose is one of the unfailing
symptoms of love.
There is no question that Mr.. Finn's
fins are on straight He's in the swim.
Some persons will never make any one
happy on this earth. save perhaps the un-
dertaker.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

As a general proposition, Represen-
tative Johnson is not far afleld when
he says that until the president is
made ineligible to an immediate re-
election this country will never have
the best government possible. Exped-
iency often unconsciously makes cow
ards of us ALL
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

carded by the author of her trouble
in a desperate effort to save himself.
1t is the way of the world; upon the
woman the burden and the punish
ment; to the man. easy forgiveness,
ready sympathy and help. In such
matters only do we see a double stan
n
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08
scRANToN. JANUARY 8. 1898.

In New York the Republicans are at
each others throats In Pennsylvania
almost everybody fears trouble. In
Maryland the Republican legislature is
deadlocked. In Ohio Gehenna is sur
passed. Yet this year congress is to
be elected. Have Republicans gone
I1ad2
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

There are newspapers friendsly to
the president which imagine they can
do him a favor by representing that
he is uncOncerned over the attitude
of congress on questions of public pol
icy. particularly the civil service. We
believe that they labor under a hall
lucination. The executive who under
estimates congress lays foundations of
his own downfall and we see no rea-
son to suspect that Mr. Mckinley has
harbOrcd any such intentions.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

General Gomez says that to hasten
matters and prevent further bloodshed,
the insurgents will give Spain $3.50, ,000,-
600 to pack up and get out. This is
$3.50 O00, 900 above the limits of justice.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

Honesty of purpose and excellence
in character are proved by the exper-
ience of William NJ. Singerly to be val
uable assets in a time of misfortune.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

In the case Of Anthony Comstock the
jury which gave him 6 cents damages
for slander probably decided that vir-
tue ought to be it's own reward.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08
PRE.DETERMINATIO OF SEX.

From the New York Journal.
The alleged discovery of DR.. Schenk, of
Vienna, that the sex of children can be
controlled by varying the food of the
mother before their birth, is of more inn
portance, If genuine, than the complica-
tions in Asia, the partition of Africa, or
any other of the spectacular perform
ances of statesmen. And there is no rea-
son why it should not be true. 1t is only
the latest of a number of seemingly mir
aculous achievements by which man has
penetrated further into the secrets of ma
ture within the past few years than in
all the centuries before. 1t is less in
credible than that we should be able to
see our own skeletons, or that human
being should be made to live without a
stomach.
That this discovery, if verified, must
have tremendous social consequences is
obvious, but their nature is not so clear.
The fear has been expressed that it
would lead to the speedy depopulation
of the world. since parents always long
for boys, and if they had the power of
choice girls would cease to be born. But
that opinion does not seem to be well
founded. Among some unciviliZed and
semi-cvilized races daughters have been
so unwecome as to run the risk of
prompt extinction at birth. Among other
girls have been welcomed as sources of
wealth, being ultimately disposed Of at
high figures either for wives, as in South
Africa, or for slaves, as in Georgia and
Crcassia. But parents in enlightened
nations have no extreme preference for
one sex over the other As a rule, they
may wish the eldest child to be a son,
but after that. as rule, they do not
desire to have all sons and no daughters.
They look to the harmonious complete
ness of the family life, which cannot be
attained without a fair representation of
each sex,
A slight artificial increase in the pro-
portion of male births might he used to
correct the present natural inequalities.
In most old countries. including the older
states of our Union, there Is a marked
excess of females over males. Nature
tries to correct this discrepancy by pro-
ducing more boys than girls, but she does
not go far enough. Although in England
there are 1,037 male to 1000 female births,
there are 1,OGi living females to 1000
males. The boys get killed off by dang
erous occupations, or kill themselves off
by irregular habits. If nature were
helped little further the lonely army
of surplus English women would disap-
pear. Some such result is much more
| likely consequence of DR.. Schenk's dis
covery than the depopulation of the
| earth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08
Ajacchus, Advice.

HE WHO laughs last laughs best" but
it is better to smile in the first stage of
the game than to let some one else have
all the fun.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08
Another Spanish Loss.

Spanish Don: 1.-THE wealthy American
business man who came to make a per-
sonal investigation of the condition Of
Cuba desires a passport f9r tomorrow
steamer"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08
TonightTs Delegate Elections.

Between the hours of 4 and I O'Clock
n. m. the Repu bllcan voters Of Scran-
ton will today have opportunity to
choose delegates to the city convention
which on Tuesday next is to place in
nomination six candidates for directors
of the Scranton puolic school system.
We take the liberty to repeat that TINS
is a matter Of the very first import
ance. affecting Intimately the welfare
of every taxpayer. every parent and
every child of school age in the City.
ON no mast occasion in the municipal
history of Scranton has there been
greater call for care in the selection ot
delegates with a view to the nCmina-
tion Of honest. broad gauged and in
relliaent men. While il is the general
iuGgmnnt of the people that party pol
itics in the ordinary sense should not
enter into The management of the pub
Iic schools, yet inaslnli"h as the regular
machinery of the two principal parties
will he used to Dldep CandloateS luf
school controller Defo"c the people we
hone to see the very best material Sc
lccted by bCth pGrties. so thai no mat
ter how the election may result the
srhuols will ne safe. 10 this end it Is
impoYtlr' that every Republican tax
uayer make his inaucrca felt at to-
NIGHTS primarics Turn down the
pnshing place. hunter whoever he may
T.. ana choose instead delegates who
VIII stand ror ho man not fully ouall"
ficl 20 he entrusted with he maraGe-
rrent of this vital part ot the city's
EDVCrnu ant.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

II reports are trueN the domestic In
stability OF ex-Mayoh Mcgowan of
Trenton, N. j., has reached in less than
three years the ruoyephtal end.-two
households broken vi? twA regulations
;one and at last the erring\ Woman dis
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08
News OF The Day
Pdt Into Dialogue
Name Unknown to Diplomacy.

For The Tribune, by II. McAlpine.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08

inequality in til" present councilman
ic renraaentatica. declares Brother
Boyd. is why WILKES Bare wants "a
new city charter. Then why not wait
until you can get IA good one?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-08
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope dawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astroioger.
g. &: n4

Astrolabe Cast: 234 a. m. for Saturday,
January 8. 1898.
Arizona republican., 1898-04-02
THE NACOSARI MINES.
Mammoth Works Contemplated by the
 Copper Queen Company.

A gentleman recently at Nacosar1 informs the Oasis that on Monday Of last week the Copper Queen company commenced work on the big reduc- tion plant projected for erection to re- duce the ores of those mines. Event ually the plant is to reach a capacity for handling one thousand tons daily. There are now one hundred men working in the mine on development and a vast body of fair grade copper ore has been developed all ready for stoping. It is reported that there are now three million tons of ore so opened up, from which ore to run a thousand ton plant could be extracted with ease and facility. Among other workings is a tunnel five thousand feet long which has been run clear through the hill. This tunnel is four hundred feet below the croppings on top of the hill. Three hundred feet lower a second tunnel is being run, which will be six thousand feet in length, and like the one above will pass en- tirely through the hill. The railway from the big reduction plant at Pla- ceritOs will be extended through this tunnel, and all the ore will be loaded on the cars inside the tunnel.
 While not much is being said it is anticipated that the extension of the Bisbee railroad will reach Nacosari by the time the new reduction plant is in working order.