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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09
Nor a poIit,ceI Novement.

The suggestion is thrown out in some
quarters that the increase in the insurance
rates in this city is but another movement
In the fight between the political factions
here. Those who make this suggestion
either have a motive for doing so or have
not given the matter careful consideration.
The answer to a single question ought TO
be sufficient to satisfy any fair-minded
man that the Increase in the rates is not
political movement That question is,
who increased the rates? The managers
Of the Southeastern Tariff Association in
creased them, and they did it against the
protests OF all the local agents. The man
ayers of that association don't live here
and they don't know anything about our
local politics. And they don't care any
thing about our local politics, except in so
far as our politics injuries the business in
which the association, of which they are
managers, is engaged. Fire insurance has
no connection with politics. 1t is bus
mess, and those engaged in it aim to con-
duct it on a purely business basis. The
local agents don't want the rates raised
because an increase in the rates interferes
with their business. 1t makes their Gus
insurance from companies not represent
ed here. There isn't a bit of evidence nor
an argument to show that the increase of
rates is anything else than a matter of
pure business. Let the fire department be
reorganized from purely business stand
point and the managers of the Southeast
ern Tariff Association will be quick to put
the insurance rates back where they were,
and viii steadily lower them as the fire
losses decrease.
Chairman Grayson of the Fire Commits
sion says he would not consent to have any
other than a Savannah man as fire chief
We agree with him that a Savannah man
should have the preference. but what
course would Chairman Grayson advise if
it should become apparent that it was inn
possible to find a wholly satisfactory Sa-
vannah man for the place? Would he still
insist upon having a Savannah man?
Would he prefer an incompetent Savan-
nah man to competent man from some
other city? If he were conducting a bus
mess IN winch ne required d man having
special qualifications, and such a man
could not be found here, would he employ
a man lacking in those qualifications be-
cause ne resided here, even though such
a man might ruin his business, rather than
seek elsewhere for man having the nee
essary qualifications? We do not think
he would. If he should do so he would
do differently from other business men.
But he would not do differently. He would
get a man who could do what he wanted
done even if he had to seek him in anoth-
er country. Why then does he insist up
on conducting the city's business upon a
basis different from that upon which he
conducts his own business? Is it because
of politics? If not, what is it?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09
Gen. Lees Position.

II is a cause Of satisfaction here in the
South thar in these troublous times the
most difficult diplomatic position in the
government service is filled by a South
ern man, and filled so satisfactorily that
not only the administration, but also
Congress and the people without
regard to party, have the utmost
confidence in him. Gen. Lee at
Havana is a great deal more than the
governments chief consular agent in
Cuba. He is It's diplomatic representative.
He was made such during Mr.. Cleveland's
administration when our relations with
Spain began 10 be strained. and he filed
the position with such conspicuous abil-
ity that President Mckinley retained
him in it. 1t is a position that requires
more judgment, tact and courage than
that our minister to Spain. Indeed.
no other one of our diplomatic
positions is of so much Importance
at this time as that occupied by
Gen. Lee Only a day or two ago
the state department said: Gen
Lee has borne himself throughout the
crisis with judgment. fidelity and courage,
to the Presidents entire satisfaction
If Gen. Lee had made a serious mistake.
or Numbered, there would have been a
demand for his recall at once, because
there are undoubtedly many prominent
men in the Republican party who would
like TO have his place, not merely on ac>
count of the salary attached to it, but
mainly for the prominence it would give
them in the eyes of their fellow citizens
When Spain limited that she would re,
gard it as a favor if the administration
would recall Gen. Lee the President did
not even consult the leaders of his party
about the matter. He peremptorily refused
to consider the question of his recall.
That was a compliment of which any man
might feel proud coming as il did from the
head Of the party with which Gen. Lee
does not affiliate
No doubt Spain would make charges
against Gems Lee If there was anything
upon which TO base them, but he has been
ground on which to find fault with him.
If he stays in Havana until our troubles
there are over, or as long. as it is possible
for our diplomatic representative to stay
there, Congress will undoubtedly show its
appreciation of his services, and he win
have the satisfaction of knowing that he
occupies a conspicuous place in the es-
teen Of the people, North and South,
Democrats and Republicans
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09
The weddin' of Murphy's

Did you hear about the weddin'
Down at Murphy's castle, Moike?
Arrah, but it was Elegant
An twas very stoylish, loike!
The broide was Nora Murphy,
The eldest aY the twins,
An the way they ate an dhrank
II was a pair av sins
The groom he was foine young man,
Wild manners swate an soft,
An they say he's bound to rise,
For he carries bricks aloft
Mrs. Murphy built the weddin' cake.
Wild a roof all painted wholte,
An livery tonne they'd cut a sloice
The knoife got shtuck in toightl
Misther Murphy played swate music
Wild a touch so bouid and foine-
The hand-organ was a new wan.
An the tune was Erin on the Rhine"
Arrah Moike, tits swate to mingle
Wild such folks of hoigh degree,
For whin they bid yer out TO sup
Yer know the drinks are free!
As soon as all the lamps wur lit,
The dhrinkin' did begin,
An livery tonne the broide would snake
They'd dhrink her hilth agin!
Misthress DAILY sang a purify song
About Tim Grady's Wake"
An Murphy wept as he played the tune.
An, he cried More woine an cake"
Wild bite an sup. dear Mollke, machree.
They filled their jolly skins.
An livery tonne the broide would dance
Shed kick her husbands shinsl
Charles Hanford, Jr
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Restaurant for Sale;
Beautiful Tract of SO Acres for Sale. Prem
dergast & Black; Ship Notices, Wilder &
Co. AGENTS
Business Notices-Silver Moon Tea. Hen
~ Solomon & Son; Genuine Pepper Wits
key, Henry Solomon & Son. Sole Agents.
Spring Suits to order-B. H. Levy &
Bro
Spring Millinery Opening Tomorrow
and Friday-Leopold Adler.
Auction Sale-Administrator's Sale, by
j. Mclaughlin & Son, Auctioneers.
Adler's Millinery opening-Thursday and
Friday.
Millinery Opening-At Leopold Adler's.
Something New-Ludden & Bates
s.. IS, 81 for a Gas Range-Mutual Gas
Light Company.
Leopold Adler's Millinery Apening-To-
morrow and Friday.
Millinery Opening-Adlers Millinery De-
partment Tomorrow and Friday.
Cottolene-N. K. Fairbanks Company.
Medical-World's Dispensary Prepare
tions; Cuticura Remedies; Carlsbad spru-
del Salt; S. S. s.; SCOTS Emulsion; Lydia
Pinkham's Pills; Munyon's Cold Cure;
Hoods Pills; P. P. P.
Cheap Column INSTRUMENTATION
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09
INC NehrasIsa Freight Rate Case.

The decision of the Nebraska freight rate
case. a synopsis of which was published
in our dispatches yesterday, is one of the
most important in the history of railroad
litigation of this country. The railroads
had been watching the case with the deep
est interest ever since 1t was begun in
the federal courts Of Nebraska. Had the
decision been adverse to them it would
have opened the way for legislation in
the different states that would have Grip
pied all of them and wrecked many of
them.
The legislature of Nebraska enacted a
law fixing the maximum rate railroads
could charge for transporting freight
within the limits of the state. The rate
was SO low that the roads couldn't make
operating expenses. The legislature took
the ground that what the roads lost on
freights transported wholly within the
state they could make up by charging
higher rates on interstate freights. The
railroads took the ground that the law
was unconstitutional and on that issue
the case was presented to the federal Cir
cult Court of Nebraska. 1t was decided in
favor of the railroads. From the Circuit
Court 1t went to the Court of Appeals,
and then to the Supreme Court. 1t was
twice argued before the latter court.
There does not appear to have been any
dissenting opinion. The Supreme Court
virtually said that the legislature of Ne
braska could no more deprive the owners
of 4.
could deprive a farmer of his farm. The
fixing of rates at a figure that would not
permit railroad to pay Its obligations,
and also yield something to its stockhold-
ers, was simply the confscation of rail-
road property. A legislature OF a state
has nothing to do with interstate rates,
and it cannot fix rates for state traffic at
a figure which would wreck. the railroads
of the state.
The principle on which the state of Ne
braska acted was a bad one. 1t was that
it had the right to say that the railroads
should charge no more than a certain
rate for transportation of freight within
the state, and that there was no state tri-
bunal which could set aside that rate il
il was shown in court of law that the
rate was unreasonably low. That sort
of legislation, If carried to the extreme
would result in bringing pretty nearly
all kinds of business to a standstill, es-
pecially those kinds which are dependent
upon state and municipal franchises
While a state, through its railroad com
mission or otherwise, has the right to
=
has not and ought not to have, the right
TO say that the reasonableness of scuh
rates shall not be inquired into by the
courts. The decision will have beneficial
effect upon the railroads.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09
what the pencon Said.

For forty years, says Truth, Deacon
Dunn had been married man, and his
burden had not been light, nor had his
yoke been easy.
Some married men have that kind of
luck.
[ 1t is not gallant to say why.
The deacon's hair was gray and his
face was a tangle of wrinkles.
Where worry walks it leaves its foot
prints there.
But the deacon was patient.
And pious.
Never had he in all those slow revolving
years been heard to say word save in
kindness TO the Titian-haired partner or
his bosom.
What she had said to him passeth COM
prehension.
But the worm will turn.
AS the adage hath it: 1t is a long worm
that has no turning.
One day the deacons limit was reached
The heel of the Titian-haired partner Of
his bosom had struck the worm in a ten
der spot at last.
The deacon rose nobly to the occasion.
Jane Ann Dunn" he Numbered at her,
without the slightest effort at self-control,
II have listened to you and stood it for
forty years without a word back. The
Lord knows how many times have want
ed to swear, and how many more times
it had ought to "a been done fer your
own good and my peace of mind. But l
have never said a word. The end of my
patience has come, and I will say now,
Jane Ann, what had ought to "a been
said at the start, and that is this: 'Dern
your red-headed skin to goldernation.
That's all I've got to say, Jane Ann and
don't want to have to say it rim. Do
you hear?''
And, strange as it may seem to those
versed in such matters, the deacon never
had occasion to repeat his rebuke.
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Mechanical Memory.

A man who felt that his meory was fail
ing him. went to a doctor of Mnemonics.
says the New York Criterion. He asked
the Memory Doctor what his method was.
IAN illustration will serve the purpose
of an hours explanation" said the pro-
fessor. Suppose, now His eye row
ed the room in an effort to recall some
thing. "Well-did you ever hear of Mount
Katahdin?'
No" said the man, Il never did"
We'll" repeated the professor a little
testify, there is such a mountain, and
MS in the state of Maine. You wish to
recollect the name of that mountain ana
cannot. What do you do? You sneeze.
Sneezing is such a common performances
that you can always remember that. The
sneeze is the key. In itself it suggests the
first part of the name-'Catarrh.' Then it
makes quite a racket, which Immediately
brings up to the minds eye the last syl-
lable-din-from which you get Catarrn>
din Katahdin, see?"
The man was so charmed by the ease
and facility of the method that he sub
scribed for the course.
After being graduated from the school
he scorned knots in his handkerchief,
strings on his fingers and other expedi-
ents of ordinary men.
One morning MS VIE gave MIN ner
watch, with instructions to take it to the
jewelers. and have it regulated. ''Ahd
don't forget it," quoth she. He smiled
a superior smile, and went forth.
Once in the street he looked upward.
There is the sky" he said to himself,
whose spheres move in such perfect or
der-that will suggest regulate Then 1
cast my eye around in a careful manner
that suggests to watch from which
easily get watch Ali what a splendid
system" and he went on his way with a
jaunty step.
As he was returning that afternoon,
weary from the days anxieties. the
thought suddenly struck him. There is
something 1 should -remember-sky,'' he
continued musingly, 81 must look at the
sky. Now, what is the SKYE" Blue-that's
it, What else was it? ] moved my head
around, 1 can remember that plainly
what's that2 Around from which l get
Round! Blue and rRoundi Hooray! l
have it. Noble systemv' and with that he
plunged into the nearest apothecary's and
purchased in triumph a box of Blue Pills.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09


The New Orleans Times-Demoerat is not
pleased with the suffrage provisions re-
ported to the Louisiana constitutional con-
vention by the subcommittee on that mat
ter. The committees proposition provides.
it is said, for eight different classes of
voters, each enjoying the suffrage through
a different condition or qualification, as
follows: sd Voters under the educational
Qualification; % voters under the prop
erty qualification; 81 because their wives
are property holders; a. because their chill
dren are property holders; 90 because they
were registered in 1865; 90 because while
they We're mot registered in 1868, they
might have been if they had thought it
worth while; ca because their ancestors
were either registered in 1868 or might
have been, and 81 because of naturaliza-
ton prior to the adoption of the constitu
ton" The Picayune as well as the Times
Democrat denounees the proposition. and
both papers warn the convention, which
is solidly Democratic, that the adoption
OF the proposition ID its present shape will
be productive of much evil.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

The statement is now made that Spain
desired Gen. Lees recall "as a proof of
the good will of the United States" We
do not do things that way in this country.
1t is the American idea that our word of
honor does not need to be backed with
proof. 1t is not to SPANS credit that she
should have desired the recall and humil-
iation of good and faithful public SER
want of the United States, merely in order
that she might have a demonstration, or
proof, of what the United States have as
serted repeatedly.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

A recent banquet in st. Louis, to employ
the vernacular. was horse on those that
sat down to it, AS a matter of fact. the
whole spread, in so far as the meats were
concerned, was horse. From soup to
roast there was not a morsel of any save
horse meat on the table. The banqueters,
students of horse doctor school, declared
they never ate anything with more relish
than the various dishes of horse that were
served to them. It may be that this flesh
will become popular in this country after
while, but it will probably be a consid-
cradle while.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

The old question with regard to who
struck Billy Patterson may come up again
soon, In an international complication
IL seems that not long ago near Westmins-
ter which is in Canada, a man named At
kinson shot, or is supposed to have shot
Billy Patterson. The matter takes on an
international aspect from the fact that
Atkinson stood on Canadian soil while do
ing the shooting, while his victim stood
across the dividing line between the two
countries on American soil.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09
Pertinent 10 the situation.
From the Macon telegraph Dem

The professor of money lending will not
object to a war. It will make a demand
for the only line of goods he deals in and
double his rate Of interest. 1t will rein
force the national debt, by adding to it a
few hundred millions. 1t WILL while rid
ding the country of some human riff-raff.
kill thousands of good and brave men and
convert other thousands of reputable
boys into worse riff-raff than those of that
kind it destroys. War is a promoter of
injurious monopoiies, breeder of every
vice. destroyer of life. capital and com
fort and a demoralizer that has no equal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

A London cable says that smoking is
greatly on the increase among women of
that capital; and the gentle smokers no
longer confine themselves to the dainty Gig
arctic of glistening wrapper and perfum-
ed filling. Many of them now openly puff
cigars, and one well-known lady of title
may be seen driving on a prominent thor
oughfare with briar pipe between her
lips. Some of the doctors are disposed to
blame the bicycle for the increase of the
smoking habit among women.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

Secretary Ager is said to be the onlv
lingo ia the cabinet, and the report is that
the other members spend a great deal of
their time in reasoning him into a calm and
judicial frame of mind. 1t might be a
good idea, whenever the war secretary gets
particularly hot, for some OF his conferees
to take him out to see his herd of KIon-
dixie relief exhibition reindeer munching
frozen moss.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

A bin TO do away with the Christian
Science" method of treating sick persons is
pending in the Massachusetts Legislature.
In several states the question is being ask
ed, is it not time to get rid of this substitu-
ton Of superstition for scientific expert
ence In the treatment Of disease? In Penn
sylvania recently a Christian Science heal
er" was indicted for obtaining money un-
der false pretense.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

Tim afeard, remarked Farmer Corn
tossel. that the period of usefulness fur
that politician is about to be drawed to
close" tn.-rr 5es.os
whats the matter2'i inquired his wife.
us Il case of overwork2"
mo" was the answer; faint nothin
so unusual as overwork. It's plain, old
fashioned case OF oSertalk. Washington
star.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

From the New orleans Picayune pem.

1t is undoubtedly true that this section
needs more capital to fully develop its in
dustrlal possibilities; but to hold for mo-
ment that there is not sufficient energy and
mechanical skill in the South to utilize
fresh capital, without the infusion of
Northern Drawn and brain, is to cast an
undeserved slur uponI our own people. 1t
is certainly not Northern enterprise and
energy that are taking the control of the
cotton goods trade from New England, and
transferring the center Of the iron indus
try from Pennsylvania to Alabama; hence
why should we look to other than our own
energy and initiative to carry on the de-
velopment which has been so well COM
menced.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

Spain continues to pour soldiers into
Cuba, fresh from the mother country and
presumably eager to win fame: and Cuba
continues to return soldiers to Spain,
emaciated from fevers and the hardships
of the wilderness. or MANNED from the
effects of machetes or bullets. The latest
arrivals of Spanish soldiers in Cuba, by
the way, will probably not be sent into
the interior at once. but may be held at
the capital Tin anticipation Of eventuali-
ties" as the spaniards express it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

The suggestion OF small ZOO" in the
park has taken like wildfire with the chill
dren of the city. There is probably not a
parent in town but has had TO answer
more questions about those monkeys than
could be put in small book. Still, it can
not be denied that Nr. DeLeon's generos-
ity has somewhat embarrassed the city
fathers. ~.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

Reduced TO its lowest terms, the inter-
view of President Upper of the Southeast
ern Tariff Association, published in the
Morning News yesterday, means this:
That If the people of Savannah desire to
run their fire department for politics, they
must pay an extra insurance rate for
that pleasure.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

The war ship" Nictheroy, which is now
being discussed in the news columns. is
our old friend the freight and passenger
steamer FL Sud, which was transformed
into something OF gunboat at New York
during the late Brazilian revolution. when
Admiral Mello on the Aquidaban was caus-
ing so much uneasiness at Rio. The Mic
theory carries pneumatic dy-
Mantle gun. like those Of the
Vesuvius. and would probably prove
about one-half as effective as that craft,
since she presents a larger target and can
not be Unanswered as rapidly.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09

During its recent session the Virginia
legislature passed 1925 bills and killed go
Others. A stale which actually needed
that many new laws would be in a mighty
bad way
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Meantime, whoop Up war.

from the Springfield Republican OndO
No pension reforms yet awhile. The an
nual appropriation bill has gone to the
President. and the undeserving widows
and the rich veterans viii continue to draw
upon the peoples bounty along with the
deserving widows and needy veterans. Pile
on the taxes.
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CURRENT COMMENT.
AIger's want Al.

From Louisville Courier Journal Dem.)
Wanted to Exchanged Reindeer, in good
condition, only recently imported, for bat
tleships, new or second hand Apply at
the war department, Washington. d. c.