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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
SENATOR QUAY AND HIS PLUM
TREE,

The senior senator Of Pennsylvania, Mr..
Quay, has squirmed out of many tight
places, but it looks as if he would not be
able to squirm out of the tight place in
which he now finds himself. His political
enemies-those who are in his own party
think they have him where he win never
be able to shake the plum tree again, the
plum. tree TO which he alluded facetiously
In a letter to Cashier Hopkins of the
wrecked Peoples Bank of Philadelphia.
There doesn't appear to be much SYM
pathy for Mr.. Quay among the Republi-
cans. For a long time charges have been
made against him of one kind or another.
Never before, however has it been posi-
BILE TO present written proof of their truth,
and the rank and file of the party, there
fore, have refused to believe them. Now,
however, since the evidence seems to be
convincing that he used the money of the
state In stock speculations Re
publicans by thousands are fall
ing away from both him and the
ticket which he was instrumental in nom
mating. Alarm is felt among
the Republican leaders that the Re-
publican ticket win be beaten this fall
If that should prove to be the case Mr.
Quay would fail to get back to the United
States Senate. He would never again have
chance to shake the political plum tree
which, from all accounts, has been a sort
of bonanza for him.
OF course, Mr.. Quay is not idle. He
means TO fight as long as there is fight
ing chance. Those who pretend to speak
for him say that he win not go down In
disgrace without dragging down some very
prominent men with him.
He has made no statement, and no one
as far as the public knows, outside of his
lawyers, Is Informed to what his de-
Tense will be. 1t is suspected that he will
contend that the charge against him is
the result of a conspiracy of political en-
emies in the Republican party to prevent
his return TO the Senate. 1t is also sus-
pected that he Will claim that the incrim-
mating letters found among the papers of
Cashier Hopkins are forgeries, and that
the books of The dead cashier have been
doctored for the purpose of making evil
dence against him.
IL is going to be the most sensational
| case from political standpoint that has
been in the courts for years Before the
| case is finished the public, in all proba-
bilty. will be entertained with the details
Of stupendous political scandal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
How a C1ergyman was worsted.

In the Celebrated Trials" collated by
the late Henry Lauren Clinton of New
York are many diverting anecdotes. He
relates this one of the famous jurist,
Judge Martin Grover: Before he went on
the bench, Grover defended a man in
dicted for the murder of his wife by
throwing her down a well. In addition to
proof of the circumstances of the hom-
icide, the prosecution, in order 10 show
not only his want of affection, but his
cold-blooded and brutal indifference to
his wife, called as a witness a clergy
man, who testified thai he attended her
funeral and sat In the pulpit with the Of
floating clergyman; and that while the
latter was engaged in prayer, the pris-
oner was looking across the church and
winking at some of the girls on one side
of the room, and continued TO do so
during the prayer. The impression given
by this testimony can well be imagined.
Its effect was to shock the jury and the
audience. In constituting the conduct of
the prisoner, in respect to the circum-
stances of the homicide, 1t was not I'M
likely that his evidence would be the
turning point to convict him. Growers
cross-examination of the witness was
very brief. 1t was as follows:
Question-You say, while the minister
ing and winking at some girls. How did
you happen 10 see him?
Answer-I was holding my hands over
my eyes and saw through my fingers
Odd you watch him all the while the
minister was praying?
Ayes, and 1 was surprised at his con-
duct, and watched him all the while the
minister was praying.
Said Grover: THAT was right; that was
according to Scripture, watch and pray;'
while Brother Jones prayed, you watched.
That is all"
All In the court room were convulsed
with laughter, and the clergyman left the
stand in great rage. AS he passed the
table where counsel sat, he Kissed out at
Grover, so as to be heard all over the
court room: You are a gentleman" Said
Grover: Hold on; go right back on the
witness stand I've long wanted a wit
ness l could prove that by. But l give
you fair notice, if you swear l am a
gentleman there are a thousand men in
Allegheny county, where / live that will
impeach you" The discounted witness
went TO his seat amid the general laugh
ter of all present Grover won his case
His client was not convicted.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
Personal.

Rear Admiral Phelps is the only sur
viving member Of the first graduating
class from the Naval Academy. There
were forty-seven members in the class.
"A notable feature in the proceedings
of the American board of foreign missions
at Grand Rapids was the election of Mar
garet ]. Evans of Minnesota as a member,
she being the first woman to be so hon
ored.
timore, Md, dho died recently at the age
of 80, was an intimate friend and a great
champion of Edgar Allan Poe, and always
combated certain illusions to Poe made in
Griswolds book.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
When Mark Twain Felt Embar.
ruSSed.

When Mark Twain was first introduced
to Gen. Grant the latter shook hands
in a perfunctory manner and Immediately
relapsed into his customary attitude of
reticence. says the Ladies' Home Jour
nal. There was an awkward pause; it
grew longer and longer, as the humorist
tried to think of something bright to say.
Finally, as If in sheer desperation, Twain
looked up with an assumed air of great
timdity. and said: Mr.. President. II
feel little bit embarrassed Do you?"
The President could not help smiling, and
Mark took advantage of the chance the
incident presented to give place to 9TH
ers
Ten years later, when statesman and
humorist met again. Gen. Grant, with a
twinkle in his eye, said, before Twain had
the chance to utter A word: MIR. Glenn
ems, 1 don't feel at all embarrassed. Do
your
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

MILLIONS IN SAWDUsT.

Millions of feet of timber go to waste
every year in the form CT
sawdust. There are thousands of
saw mills in the country, and
each of them produces daily from to ten
to 500 or more tons of the waste product.
Many mills burn all of the sawdust they
can under their boilers, but with most of
them getting rid of the accumulation is
a matter OF annoyance and expense. Mr..
Victor L. Emerson, a Baltimore inventor,
claims to have perfected an apparatus
and a process by which sawdust is given
a value of about $50 ton-about the value
of high grade gold quartz.
Very naturally Mr.. Emerson Is keeping
his process a secret. There is money In
it, If his claim is well based, and he means
to get something out of it for himself.
Broadly speaking, however, the process
consists of "carbonizing the sawdust and
extracting the by-products." From the
hydrogen gas given off by the sawdust
during the carbonizing process, 1t is said,
a city can be furnished with light and
heat at the cost of ten cents per thous-
and feet of gas. The precise nature of
other by-products, or of the chief product,
is not stated by Mr.. Emerson, but 1t is
understood that chemicals, paints. print
ers' ink and calcium carbide can be made
from them, besides other things. Recent
experiments have been conducted at
large saw mill In Ontario, and the sue
cess achieved is said to have given rise
to the projection of a number of new in
dustries to be operated near the saw mill
and which will draw their raw materials
from the sawdust pile.
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Emerson's
apparatus and process are available for
handling yellow pine sawdust, as we'll as
the spruce sawdust of Canada Georgia
produces, and wastes, annually sawdust
enough to make a mound over the Wash
ington monument or to carpet a town
ship. II this present waste product could
be turned into money even at half the
value of high grade gold quartz, it would
be a boon TO the lumber manufacturers
and to the people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
PrOtectorate or Annexation.
From the New Orleans Picayune (Dem.)

While many patriotic Americans will
deplore the extension of our authority and
responsibility to the distant Philippines,
they will not hesitate 90 declare against
a protectorate Absolute annexation
would be preferable A protectorate over
the islands would impose the same respon-
sibilites upon us as absolute possession,
without giving US that local control which
Is essential to good government. If, there
FORE We are to assume responsibility for
the whole Philippine group, &c would ha
much better to annex all of the islands
outright. than merely to assume a pro-
decorate over them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-Annual Meeting Stockholders
Georgia and Alabama Railway.
Special Notices-Shlp Notice, Georgia
Export and Import Company; Notice of
Presentation of Bills to Legislature; Some
ching to Think over, Falk Clothing Com
pauy.
Try Fry at Beckmanne Cafe.
Fan and Winter Suit Time-At Levy's.
A Saw With Broken Teeth-Byck Bros.
Busy Waiting on Those Who Visit the
Great Sale-Torgerson 81 Co.
The Gas Range-Mutual Gas Light Com
pany.
Southern Railway-The Short Line, The
Quickest Schedules.
Beef-Leibig's Extract of Beef.
Medical-Radway's Ready Relief; Paine's
Celery Compound; Hoods Pills; Lydia
Pinkham's Vegetable Pills; Mothers
Friend.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
A TwO-Ways Tariff Tinker.
From the Springfield Republican NndO.

Robert P. Porter of high tariff fame
learned some strange things during his
recent visit to Cuba He found that one
great drawback to Cuban life and indus
try has been the frightful tariff put on
everything" He has consequently become
a free trader as far as Cuba is concern
ed" He ought to explain, however,
why 1t is that free trade can help Cuba
when protection has been the essential
factor in the upbuilding of the nation
lying just north of Cuba.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

There are about 10000 Cuban insurg-
ent soldiers. Some fsour contemporaries
are urging that the United States loan
the Cuban junta 100000 with which to
pay the soldiers an average of 500 each.
taking bonds of the Cuban republic as a
guarantee for the payment of the debt.
From the standpoint of the expansionists
the scheme is great 1t would be very
much easier to manage the Cubans af-
ter we had secured a mortgage from their
prospective government.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

Hobson cannot raise the Vizcaya. There
IS a rent in her huh fifty feet long and so
wide that 1t precludes the possibility of
even a temporary patch He will here
after devote himself to the Colon, and be-
lseves he win be able to add her to the
American navy as sister ship TO the Te-
resa.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

If Chaplain Nave, of Fort Mcpherson
Atlanta, continues to hold his job It will
be wonder. His appeal to the public for
fort is simply preposterous. 1t is beyond
belief that this government, rich and dem
ocratic as it is. would turn its soldiers out
of the hospital naked. 1t would be diff
cult for him or anybody else to convince
the public that the army affairs are so
tied up with red tape that well soldiers
are compelled to lie abed because the gov
eminent is tardy about giving them some
thing with which to hide their nakedness.
The chaplain's appeal is calculated to
bring the department into disrepute.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

DIR. Swallow, in Pennsylvania, is run
ming for Governor upon the platform,
''Thou shalt not steal" Col. Roosevelt.
In New York, says his platform includes
that with the amendment, nor let any
one else steal if you can help it,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

Several lively fights in the Georgia leg
islature for judgeships and solicitorships
are predicted for the coming session. The
constitutional amendments will do away
with such contests in the legislature here
after
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

1t is worthy of note that the protest
against the employment of negroes as 10
connective flremen and trainmen does not
come from the Southern delegates in the
Atlanta convention, but from Northern
delegates. AS our dispatches point out,
the prime movers in the anti-negro cru
sade are from Illinois, a state in which
social equality Is practiced to some extent.
Without touching upon the merits of the
controversy. 1t may be observed that few
of the roads in this section employ ne
groes as firemen and trainmen, and that
they have found them satisfactory and
faithful servants. It win be a difficult
matter to force these roads to discharge
such employees. 1t seems that the Atlanta
convention might devote itself to better
business than looking for trouble.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

1t is said in Pennsylvania that Mr..
Wanamaker offered Senator Quay $4,000
for the election as senator, and that Quay
Indignantly refused it. Did the senator
assume a Koko-like attitude when he
declined to be insulted
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

Twenty-Five street cars are being equip
ped with compressed air motors for service
in New York. They will be put into com
mission within a few weeks. Each car
will carry a reservoir containing COM
pressed air enough to run it twenty-five
miles.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

Gen. Miles is preparing recommended
lions to Congress for Notifications lin
the colonies In view of the way Moro
Castle at San Juan stood up against Samp-
sons bombardment it does not appear
that we shall need any new Notifications
in Porto Rico.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

When the matter Of reorganizing the
city's commissions comes to be considered
it might not be a bad idea to give one of
them jurisdiction in architectural matters.
Stoop lines are VIGOROUSLY disregarded in
Savannah. There are some stooDs which
take up every particle of the sidewalk,
making 1t necessary for pedestrians to step
OF into the roadway to pass And there are
some other stoops that leave one foot, and
some two feet, and some three feet, Of
sidewalk. The whim of the builder has
seemed to govern in such matters. And
there are some architectural onstrosities
to be seen about town that should never
have been permitted. The Savannah The
alter is one of them. 1t is the most ludi-
crous nondescript to be found in a week S
journey. When 1t was patched together
1t was promised that the arrangement was
only temporary. But after three years the
homogeneous tumble Of three distinct styles
city building, country meeting house
and barn-still stares at passers on the
principal street of the city. So long as no
one is charged with seeing that some at
tention is paid to the eternal fitness of
things architectural, so long may we ex-
pect to have stoops and buildings con-
structed in accordance with the idiosyn-
crasies of contractors or owners.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

The Adula remains unsold. The evidences
go to show that the honorable court is not
so good judge of the value of merchant
vessels as II is of points of law. Meantime
1t remains to be shown that New York
is better market for ships than Savan-
nah. Had the Adufa been offered for sale
at this port to the highest bidder, shs
would have been sold for a good round fig
ure, and she would not be "eating her head
OFF, in expenses.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
Electric Route Now Open.
From the Washington Post qnd).

The last hanging in the state Of Massa-
chusetts occurred on Friday last. In the
future the electric spark will flip the con-
victed murderers into the hereafter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

The London Chronicle publishes an al
legged exposure of Louis de Rougement,
the modern Robinson Crusoe," who is
writing of his experiences during a resi-
dence of thirty years among the cannibals
of Australia. The Chronicle claims that
de Rougemont is really a theatrical
agent whose real name is Grin, and that
he has recently travelled in Italy, England
and the United States in his professional
capacity. Whether that is true or not,
the fact remains that de RougemOnt' S
narrative is one of the most romantic and
readable that has appeared in print in
many years. The Morning News has pub
lished several articles from him on the
subject 1t will publish another next Sun
day, and still another on the Sunday fol-
lowing. If de Rougemont did not under
go the experiences which he describes,
then he is one of the most expert story
writer's of the day.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

There may be no alliance between IN
Gle Sam and John Bull; still one cannot
help thinking what a powerful team
Dewey and Kitchener would make, OPP
Grating together.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

Mr.. w. d. Bynum, recently manager of
the gold faction of the Democratic party
has taken the stump for the Republican
party in Iowa Mr.. Bynum declares that
the attitude of the Democratic party in
respect to silver has driven him into the
Republican party. II will not be forgot
ten. meantime, that MIR. Bynum did not
change his political afiliauon until his
salary as manager of the gold Democ-
racy'' had been discontinued.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

From Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.).
Here is somebody who tells us that at
is our duty as Christian nation to teach
the Philippine Islanders to wear clothes,
and il is our duty as a business nation to
sell them the clothes" Ten to one this
chap is one of the Sons of the Mission
aries"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

A new order of the bath has been in
stituted in New York. 1t is in connection
with a church society, and its members
pledge themselves to take bath every
day unless prevented by Illness The So
ciety's rules provide that The condition of
cleanliness shall apply to each individual
in a moral as wei as a physical sense.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

The hornets seem to have built a nest
in the plum, tree that Senator Quay
shook.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

was made up to acquit the administration
of all blame for those things in the con-
duct of the war which were the occasion
Of great complaint
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
CURRENT COMMENT.
Two Sorts of PfTIaxers.

From the Nashville American Dem.).
1t must be admitted that the pillaging
white man is largely responsible for the
trouble with the Pillager Indians.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12

Registered at the pOstOfiee in Savannah
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-04-02

from the experiments that vieitors
who insist upon sitting on the chairs
and leaning upon the tables try. The
leading lady was vivacious, exquisitely
gowned. and did not have nor affect the
stride Bowery.
Roland Reed in the wrong Mr..
Wright" played to large and affection
ate audience at tho Oliver Monday night.
Mr.. Reed has many demonstrative friends
here who have never missed greeting him
since he first began to show in Lincoln
which was many years before the over
valued Miss Rush became his leading
lady. Miss Rush's swaggcr is unfemi-
nine and she depends too much upon her
clothes. which to be sure. ft her. But
there have bee" seventy, five leading
ladies here whose gowns fit them just az
we'll end who have worn them without
them t. do the principle part
Of the acting. The man or woman who
cannot concesl bis self satisfaction with
his costumes from an audience is in
tolerable. Mr.. Reed is easy. graceful
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-04-02

"Under the Dome, Lincoln J. Car
ter's new sensational comedy drama.
will be seen for the first time in this city
at the Funke Thursday. April 8. 1t is
q naval play. the main incidents Of which
we're suggested by the attempted seizure
Of the Samoan islands by the German
government in 1888 and 1889. Several
scenes Of the play are worthy Of more
than passing notice. Prices %, SO and
75c. Seats on sale Thursday ut 10 q. 10