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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20
A Revenue Kiss.

A well dressed, bright-eyed young wo-
man walked into one of the local telegraph
offices on a recent Sunday, and inquired
the cost of a telegram to Warren. says
the Cleveland Plain Dealer. She was a
decidedly pretty girl, and the clerk an
swered her question with smiling precis-
ion.
And you'll rush n?' she asked with
flash of dazzling teeth
Certainly" said the affable clerk
IT'S very important, you know" she
continued, as she bent over the blank and
jotted down a few words Then she pass
ed the message to the clerk.
"Twenty-six cents, please" he said in
his oiliest business tone.
"Twenty-six? she echoed, why,
thought you said 25?"
Il did said the clerk the extra cent
is for the revenue stamp"
Il see' said the fair girl I had for
gotten all about the stamp. I declare, it's
too bad" she hastily added, as she finger
ed her purse. Il have only a quarter and
a nickel, and the nickel is for car fare"
Then something clinked on the floor
Now, I've dropped the quarter" she
said as she stopped down. The deeply in
terested clerk drew himself up on the
counter and leaned far over.
Cant you find it," he asked.
Eyes, here it is she answered as she
picked it up and handed 1t to him. But
what shall 1 do about the stamp"
And she looked up at him with such a
perplexed face that the good hearted clerk
was just about to say it would be all
right. when he suddenly felt his ears
seized by two sets of gloved fingers and a
real Hobson kiss was squarely planted on
his astonished lips!
There" cried the girl, take that for
your old stamp. Goodby." And she was
through the door like a flash. The clerk
ran around the counter, but the fair IN
known was just boarding car
OF course he cheerfully paid for a stamp,
and, of course, he rushed the message,
but, alas, it was all so sudden and so
paralyzlng that he isn't quite sure he
would know the girl again if he met her.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20
NO DANGER OF DRYING UP.

The state of Mississippi, South Carolina
and Louisiana, having adopted eonsutu-
tons which practically eliminate the
black man as a voter. are being watched
with considerable interest by the other
states, and especially by some Of the
Northern states which were leaders in the
movement which resulted in the ignorant
negro being inflicted upon the South as a
citizen clothed with fun civil rights. The
Massachusetts newspapers particularly
seem to be interested in the political
status Of the states named, and the out
look. one newspaper leader of Massachu-
sets public opinion fears that the out
look is unfavorable for the three states.
Quoting from the election returns, it finds
that the number of ballots cast has stead
ily declined since the negro was removed
as a political factor. 1.-The total vote in
Louisiana last month";" il is stated, was
the lowest ever known since the state
was admitted to the union" Similar, but
not quite so great, losses have occurred
in south Carolina and Mississippi.
'orhe phenomena are directly due 20 the
new constitutions DISTINGUISHING the col
ored race" says the paper referred TO-
which continues by saying that while
there may at some future time come di-
visions of the white voters, "the outlook
Just now is that those three states VIII be-
come more or less fossilized little oligarch-
les"
There is no more danger that either Of
the states will become fossilized or stag
nant than there is that Thomas B. Reed
Of Maine will dry up and blow away, or
that the Gulf of st. Lawrence will stag
nate and kill all of its fishes. Even New
England should know by this time that
politics in the states named as mighty
deep, the waves of which continually roll
and heave and are occasionally whipped
into froth and spume by such political
cyclones as Ben Tilman and others that
might be named. In this political sea
there will be occasional neap-tides, and
New England has just witnessed one of
them. The spring tide will come again in
due season, and there will meantime be
agitation enough to keep the body polite
lively and healthy.
And also meantime there are just as
many persons In the states to be legsated
for as ever before. In point of fact the
population is ever increasing. Legislation
is for the benefit Of the people, not for the
benefit of the voters alone. Therefore,
talk about reducing the representation in
Congress of Mississippi South Carolina
and Louisiana because of the falling off
in the vote should not be seriously
thought of by fair minded persons.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20

1t Is now believed in Washington that
the peace treaty will be ratified with very
little if any opposition. The ratification,
as Col. Bryan said the other day in his
Savannah interview, would place the Phil
ippine question into our own hands, to be
dealt with after our own fashion, and
without foreign interference. On the other
hand, II the treaty were rejected it would
reopen the whole matter to diplomacy and
give every European nation a chance to
NEEDLE in the settlement. 1t seems that the
minority members of the Senate have come
to Col. Bryan's way of thinking.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20
HOLIDAY STORE NEWS.
The Week Before Xmas

Striking reductions in all departments.
Sensible, appropriate and acceptable gifts.
What gifts could be better than nice
Jacket or Cape? Who wouldn't be delight
ed at such present? Your money, too,
will go long way. Read this bulletin of
special prices:
50 Ladies' Beaver and Rough Cheviot
Cloth Jackets $2.9S; reduced from $3.50.
So Ladies' Beaver and Kersey Cloth Jack
cts, all silk lined. S9.75; reduced from Sc.
40 Ladies' and Misses Covert Cloth, fine
Kersey cloth and heavy Broadcloth Jack
cts s.; worth $3.50.
Ladies and Misses Fine French Coverts,
lined with silk, double-breasted effects,
nobby, sold for SIG; this week $3.50.
Plush Capes this week $3.50.
Plush Capes this week S..
Cloth Capes this week 81.
Cloth Capes for elderly ladies' $3.50.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20
HE TOLD THE TRUTH.

A Washington newspaper correspondent
writing the other day of ex-senator Brice
whose death had just been announced paid
a tribute to the dead financier and at the
same time turned an interesting side light
upon official life at the capital. The cor
respondent was one who had lived long
enough at Washington to know fairly well
the characteristics and foibles of the av-
erage public man. Brice, he wrote, was
something of freak in his appearance.
The peculiarities of his personality and the
oddities of his dress made him marked
man. But, more peculiar than anything
ese. was the fact that che told the truth,
and nobody believed him"
Why this should have been so the CORE
spondent could not, or did not explain.
Whether it is the custom of most public
men at Washington who are also finan-
ciers to mislead those with whom they
converse; whether diplomacy enters into
every phase of life about the capitol;
whether long experience has taught the
Washington cores ondents to listen to
everything and then believe only so much
as they please of what they hear; whether
Senator Brice chung to the truth as a mat
ter of policy for the purpose of deceiving
those he talked to, may be questions open
TO debate. But the correspondent attests
his truthfulness. And still, nobody would
believe him" when he gave out the most
important information involving great
financial deals or great political incidents.
An instance in point is referred to by
the correspondent AT the time the Demo-
cratic majority was fixing up the Wilson
tariff bill, Senator Brce was at the head
of the combine which dictated the sugar
| schedule. With amazing frankness he
talked to the newspaper correspondents
about the matter. He gave them the
minutest details of the scheme, with abso-
lutte candor and precision, long before the
bill was completed. The correspondents
| listened and when the senator had gone
they put their fingers to their noses
laughed. called ii 'Brices jolly" and
printed not one word about it, notwith-
standing 1t would have been a famously
| sensational piece of news Some weeks
afterward the whole thing worked out
precisely as Senator Brice had said it
would, 60 the very letter. He had told
them the plain, unvarnshed truth, with
out reservation. and they had refused to
| believe him.
on another occasion Senator Brice was
supposed to have a big railroad deal on
hand. The correspondents went to see
him about it. He invited them to in
spect his cupboard and cigar box. told
them a yarn or two. and then took UP the
railroad deal As in the former instance
he told the truth, but the correspondents
! declined to believe it. He was so candid
so confiding, that they thought he was
working them for purposes Of his own
and trying to get them away from the
true inwardness OF the story they were in
/ search of; so not word of the railroad
deal was published until it had actually
been accomplished. And then il was seen
that every word Mr. Brice had spoken
| was literally true.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20

A financial journal, speaking Of the ru-
mored desire of Russia to make a large
loan in this country, says the character of
the security which Russia has to offer may
have good deal to do with the govern
bankers to those of the new world. The Sc
curity may be of a kind not regarded as
gilt-edged by the EngLshmen and the
Frenchmen. Be that as it may, it is not
risking anything to say that the money
lenders of the United States are quite
able to take care that they do not put
out their dollars upon worthless securi-
ties
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20
PERS 0NAI1.

Frederick the Great composed the
'Marche Real" the national anthem of
Spain, and Pedro of Brazil the "Hymno
Constitutional" the national air of Portu-
gal
Emma Calves real name is Emma Ro-
quer, and she was born at Decazeville in
1866. She was brought up in a convent
and during her first season as a singer got
S140 a month
Gen. John w. Foster, who served as
Ii Hung Changes adviser during the ia
panese-Chinese peace negotiations, has re-
ceived a letter from the Oriental states
man, in which he says that "all recent
changes in China are for the better"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20
Replies to Correspondents.

This is how the Chicago News answers
some of its correspondents:
Chilcoot-No the goldleaf is an artificial
product and is not found on trees. in the
Klondike region.
Housewife-The only sure way to pre-
vent jelly from moulding on the top Is 10
allow a small boy access 20 the pantry.
Superstiton-lf you are unable TO find a
horseshoe perhaps a bicycle tire hung
over your door would prove just as decor
alive.
Hayseed-Your theory that Rip Van
Wrinkle was The original Popuiist may Do
correct. We have neither the lime nor IN
ci.natlon 20 doubt e.
Weary WlMr-Our book ~ etiquette IL
painfully mum on the subject, buf We feel
safe in saying that hunting suH b. The
correct hing for man " wear When
2Ookng tor work,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20
SHAFTER's OPINION OF THE Gu
BANS.

Gen Shafter has seen something of the
Cubans He came in contact with them
during the Santiago campaign. His opin-
ion Of them is contained in a remark he
made at the camp of the Third Georgia
Regiment on Sunday and published in
the Morning News yesterday.
Assuming that this opinion of the Gu
bans is a correct one. it will be a long
time before it would be advisable for our
government to withdraw troops from
Cuba. And we should not be surprised
if it were correct. 1t is well known that
those Cubans who have something at
stake in the island are very anxious for
annexation. They know the masses of
the Cuban people and they are afraid of
the experiment of self-government
That there are men in Cuba who are
capable of giving the island good gov
eminent there is no doubt. but the prob
ability is they will not be permitted to do
so. The best men cannot get into the
places of power if the whole Cuban peo-
pie are allowed to have their way in po-
Htical matters If the best men were to
be put in the places of responsibility and
trust it is doubtful if they would be per-
mitted TO retain them long. There would
not be enough of the better element TO
support them.
On Friday last two Cuban soldiers fired
on squad of the Fourth Illinois Regi-
ment that was engaged in transferring
the body of a comrade from one grave to
another. The firing was from ambush,
but fortunately no one was hurt. If Gu
! ban soldiers could be guilty of deliberate ly
| firing on soldiers of government that
| liberated their country from the yoke of
| Spain, it is a question if the people of
such a country are likely to be fit for
| self government within the next century.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20

China is a very useful old party for
the Powers Of Europe to have about. She
can nearly always be induced 60 buy A
lot of their old secondhand goods at high
prices. Russia has just induced her to
take 10000 army rifles that are OF an
obsolete pattern and practically worn OUT.
by placing these rifles in the hands Of
the Chinese the Russians take a long stem
toward guaranteeing their own safety
wherever they get ready 10 march into
the Middle kingdom and help themselves
~ . slice Of territory.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20
*Grains.
GUNS.
GUNS.
Cost of
Weight. Length. Firing firing
Cost of

If, in the case of the 13-inch gun an ar
mor-piercing projectule were substituted
the cost of firing a single charge would
be raised to $685.
One of the problems that have interes St
ed archaeologists, engineers and architects
for many years has been TO ascertain the
means employed by the ancients in carry
ing on building or engineering works
where large masses of material had 90 be
moved considerable distances Compara.
lively little is forthcoming to explain a
number of these operations so that anv
new theory, or facts suggesting a theory
is likely to occasion considerable inter-
est One of the most recent hypotheses
in this connection is presented by a writer
in Construction Moderne," and describes
a way in which the Egyptian obelisks
were possibly erected As some of these
are over 100 feet in hight and cut from a
single piece of stone weighing often as
much as 1000 tons, it will be seen that m
set them in position is quite a matter
even for modern engineering skill In the
plan proposed, il is assumed that an IN.
clined causeway Of sand or other material
was constructed, with its hight equal Ia
that OF the obelisk 10 be erected AT the
end was built strong wooden crib-work
ana the space beyond where the foundation
was located was died in with sand From
the top OF this roadway an inclined shuta
or strong construction led TO the base
Using wooden rollers, the huge stone
would De drawn NJ the incline. and bv
means Of n tackle tilied in such way a.
- fail INTO the sand, being guided by the
snute 20 that the lower end would reach
me base Or foundation on which II was
destined 20 rest By hauling on tha tackie
fastened io ne 400 OF the obellsk ana Dig
spR away Che sand beneath ana "a lie
'a position.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20
INDEX 70 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Augusta and Sa-
vannah Railroad; Alpha Lodge No l, A.
and A. S. r.; Solomons Lodge No. !, F.
and A NJ; Myrtle Lodge No 6, X. P.
Special Notices-Notice to Daughters of
Confederacy; Crystalized Strawberries,
Etc, A. NJ. & c. w. West; Watch the
Weather, James ]. Joyce; Dinners Joseph
H. Baker; Ship Notice, Georgia Export
and Import Company; Chainless Wheels
Reduced to $50, R. d. & VIM. baltimore;
Last Notice, State and County Taxes, 1898;
Notice, VIM. Leo McGoveTn.
Business Notice-LePanto Cigars.
Amusements-One Solid Week of the
KIimt-Hearn Company.
Condensed Mnk-Gail Borden Eagle
Brand Condensed Mix.
Christmas Periodicals-At Estilrs News
Depot.
Sporting Goods-Palmer Hardware Com
pany.
lis an Easy Matter-M. S. Brown.
Railroad schedule-Florida Central and
Peniusular Railroad.
What We Have-E. L Neidlinger.
Agent.
Auction Sales-Temporary Administra-
tors sales, by I. ID. LaRoche. Auctioneer.
Steamship Schedule-Baldmore Steam
ship Company.
Medical-World's Dispensary Prepara-
tons; Erie Medical Company; Cudcura
Remedies; Hoods Sarsaparilla; Bradfeld's
Female Regulator; Castoria.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20

1t seems that there is to be in the SEN
ate of the United States retelling Of the
story OF the charges Of bribery brought
against Senator Hanna of Ohio. who some
time ago was accused of having bought
his way into the most august delibera-
tive body In the world" Senators Hoar.
spooner and rurpie-two Republicans
and one Democrat-are expected 10 make
an investigation of the charges and re-
port their conclusions 60 the Senate.
About a month VIII be required ia gath
ering al of The testimony. 20 the report
wiz not go 10 the senate until after The
holiday recess
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20
SCALES
COVE RED
Head of Six Months Old Baby,
They Would Peel OFF Taking
The Hair with Them.
Doctor & Remedies Did No Good
Tried Cuticura. Hair Grew and
Now No Trace of Eczema.

My baby was about six weeks old when the
top of her head became covered with thick
scales, which would peel and come off, taking
the hair with it. 1t would soon form again
and be as bad as before. 1 tried several things
and then went to the doctor. He said it was
Eczema and prescribed an ointment, which
did not do any good. A friend spoke of Gu
TICURA SOAP. 1 tried it and read on the
wrapper about CUTIcURA (ointment) as a rem
edy for Eczema. bought a box and washed
her head in warm water and CUTICURA SOAP
and gently combed the scales off, They did
not come back, and her hair grew out fine
and thick. She is now year and half old
and has no trace Of Eczema. You have my
permission to publish my letter.
Mrs. c. W. BURGESS,
Feb. q, '9S. 95 Warren ST., Bridgeport, Conn.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20

Russia seems to be moving right ahead,
In her own way. toward putting the Cars
disarmament proposition into force. That
government has just ordered 5000 new
rapid-fire guns, to be delivered within
the next two years
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20

The Tennessee newspapers are calling
upon the legislature of that state to chase
the lobbyists out of the capitol The same
cry has gone up in every state of the I'M
ion for many years; but the lobby sin
flourishes like a green bay tree.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20

A Chicago dispatch says it is believed
the indictment against Gov Tanner, grow
ing out of the Virden riots, will be quash-
ed. The same dispatch refers to the fact
that the official who win do the quashing
is Gov. Tanners political friend.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Times Qnd) regards
some of the Presidents recent utterances
on the matter of expansion as being a di-
rect challenge to the Democratic party
1t says There is no installing Presi-
dent McKinleys views on the issue of
national expansion. 1t was not a chosen
policy of his own. Indeed he sought to
avoid il until events decreed a destiny for
us that he had not contemplate but
when the issue came he was big enough
and broad enough 20 understand its
meaning, and he knows enough about
the American people to understand that
the administration or the party that will
withdraw the flag from any Spanish ter
ritory conquered by the herosm of our
army and navy. would be utterly over
whelmed by the patriotic sentiment of the
nation. How will the Democrats meet
this issue? II is before them and it can
not be eWaded.
The Columbia Is. c. State Dem)
thinks it unjust 10 say offhand that the
Filipnos cannot govern themselves. 1t
says: 1T will be time enough to declare
that the Filipinos are incapable of gov
erning themselves when they shall have
proved it. If We are going there with hui
manitarian motives why should we OBJ
ject to setting them up In government?
What sort of humanitarianism is il that
sends great army there to compel them
by force to submit to our rule before we
have given them a chance to show wheth-
er they can rule themselves?
The New York Journal Dem) says:
Thirty thousand soldiers were considered
sufficient to keep spanish despotism upon
the nccks of the hostile people of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines. Are we
going 20 need 5000 to impose American
liberty upon a friendly population, after
"A third of the Inhabitants Of Cuba have
diedY
The Chicago Chronicle Dem.) thinks
many persons are giving themselves un-
necessary trouble about getting the yolun-
teers mustered out The soldiers them
Selves do not appear 10 be- making any
great cutlery against remaining in fhe
service. The Chronicle says: "'fho vol-
untefrs arc not pleading abe "baby act"
and D. is goo part ~ true friendship 90
rcprescnt ihem aa occupyins that atu-
Lude"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20

The New York Herald the other day
compiled table purpordng to show how
the daily newspapers of the country
stood on the question of expansion In
the case of the Georgia papers the Her.
AIDS table placed them all against
That IS the way they all ought to stand
but as a matter of fact they are not unan-
imously against expansion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-20

An official report has just been made
in Washington on the water hyacinths
in the st. Johns river, Florida, and in
the rivers and bayous of Louisiana.
Meantime, If one may Judge from the
lack of complaints respecting the hya-
cinths. they have to a considerable ex-
tent disappeared of their own accord.